Title: Update categories doesn’t work
Last modified: May 2, 2017

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# Update categories doesn’t work

 *  Resolved [rbroggero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbroggero/)
 * (@rbroggero)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-categories-doesnt-work/)
 * Hello,
    I have manually created many categories of products, but when I try to
   upload the categories product listing with the plugin, the plugin does not recognize
   my categories and subcategories that I created and it creates new ones. I don’t
   know what i’m doing wrong. Could you help me?

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 *  [hikeforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hikeforce/)
 * (@hikeforce)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-categories-doesnt-work/#post-9091637)
 * Hi [@rbroggero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbroggero/):
 * Try exporting one product with your desired category selected with that product
   and re use the category column on importing product for the same category. It
   may be creating new category as there will be some mismatch in CSV category and
   existing category.
 *  Thread Starter [rbroggero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbroggero/)
 * (@rbroggero)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-categories-doesnt-work/#post-9092862)
 * Thank you very much for your answer but I already understood that the problem
   was the accent marks in the categories, cause the extension of the excel that
   was using (.csv Comma-delimited) doesn’t recognize accent marks.Can you tell 
   me if it’s the only one format that accept the plugin?
 *  [mujeebur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mujeebur/)
 * (@mujeebur)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-categories-doesnt-work/#post-9100228)
 * [@rbroggero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbroggero/): Different delimiters
   can be used for CSV but need to mention the delimiter while importing

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 * Last reply from: [mujeebur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mujeebur/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-categories-doesnt-work/#post-9100228)
 * Status: resolved