# Upload CSV Error Code: incorrect number of columns

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**Created:** [February 10, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/upload-csv-error-code-incorrect-number-of-columns/12910 "2019-02-10T22:53:41Z")\
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Hi @Nagazzi

Usually that error is from the CSV file **not** having empty columns included in the rows.

So, if you had 3 headings you would need to have at least 2 commas per row.

```auto
Heading 1, Heading 1, Heading 3Value 1,, 
Value 2,,
Value 3,, 

```

Note the additonal commas after Value 1 which show column 2 and 3 are empty.

Or, you could remove the extra headers (on the right) that don’t have any data.

Alternately you could try uploading the file as Microsoft Excel.

Did that work?

Mike

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