# Stop Glide from creating an array column from similarly named Sheet columns

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/stop-glide-from-creating-an-array-column-from-similarly-named-sheet-columns/67891>\
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**Created:** [November 17, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/stop-glide-from-creating-an-array-column-from-similarly-named-sheet-columns/67891 "2023-11-17T11:58:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![gannonatwork](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gannonatwork/32/91717_2.png) [@gannonatwork](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gannonatwork)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/stop-glide-from-creating-an-array-column-from-similarly-named-sheet-columns/67891/1 "2023-11-17T11:58:32Z")

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Hello. My app is connected to a Google Sheet and as I was configuring some columns to help display dates/times for some class sessions (column headings Session 1, Session 2, Session 3, and so on). After finishing in the Sheet, I went back into the Glide editor and noticed that Glide had recognized these multiple columns as an array? and created a Multiple Files column instead:

 ![Screenshot 2023-11-17 at 6.19.04 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/3/3/334025c9c4d74f116d004b09ad7645aa3851e9c4.png)

This is not what I want so I deleted the session columns in my Sheet to get rid of the Multiple Files column in Glide. How do I prevent Glide from generating this array so I can configure the columns into individual Text columns that I can display as individual Text components in Glide?

I appreciate the help. Thx

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/stop-glide-from-creating-an-array-column-from-similarly-named-sheet-columns/67891/2 "2023-11-17T12:11:03Z")

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Just make sure they aren’t in sequence.

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**Author:** ![gannonatwork](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gannonatwork/32/91717_2.png) [@gannonatwork](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gannonatwork)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/stop-glide-from-creating-an-array-column-from-similarly-named-sheet-columns/67891/3 "2023-11-17T14:08:17Z")

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Awesome, thanks Darren. That’s the one thing I didn’t try! Wish there was a built-in way instead of having to do this type of workaround — like a context-menu that appears when right clicking the column in Glide, choose Edit, disable array, and this would display the columns separately again to match the source Sheet. Thx again.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/stop-glide-from-creating-an-array-column-from-similarly-named-sheet-columns/67891/4 "2023-11-24T14:08:29Z")

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