Be careful of updating to the new AdWords Editor

Posted: June 1, 2009

A few recent updates to the AdWords editor needed to be pulled and re-launched due to back-ups being lost, data corruption, and other issues.

The new update is now out (if you open the AdWords editor, it should give you a dialogue box to upgrade the editor); but be very careful.

After upgrading my editor, when I tried to open the file, I only received a ‘this program is no longer responding’ error from windows. I actually had two different versions of editor on my computer (which shouldn’t happen). I tried for a while, but nothing worked. Eventually, I had to completely uninstall and re-install the program.

Luckily, the data was still saved on my computer and I didn’t lose notes like a previous update.

The latest editor has a few nice updates. My favorite one is being able to sort the data by multiple columns.

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You can sort by any three columns that are in your current view. For instance, if you do not have quality score being displayed in the current view, you need to first display quality score and then you can sort by it.

This will help in creating priorities of what keywords, ad copy, etc to change within your account.

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Written by Brad Geddes aka eWhisper · Filed Under Blog, Google AdWords

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3 Responses to “Be careful of updating to the new AdWords Editor”

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David on June 2nd, 2009 1:29 pm

Thanks for the heads up!
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