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Compare wrapped source identifiers before export
A long code can wrap onto a second line in a PDF or photo. Decide whether the cell should hold one continuous code before you export it.
Visual wrapping versus real line breaks
Narrow table columns force long values onto two lines: an IBAN, a tracking number, a product key or an invoice reference. On the page the break is only layout; the code is one continuous string. When the page is turned into cells, that break can survive in several forms: a line break inside the cell, a space where the line ended, or the second half of the code in a row of its own.
Any of those changes the identifier. A lookup against another system will not find it, and a person retyping it may not notice.
How to spot a wrapped code
- In the Tablora app, compare long codes in the grid with the Source · page view, especially in narrow columns.
- Look for rows that hold only a short fragment in the code column and nothing else; that is often the second line of the previous row's code.
- Look for codes of different lengths in a column where the source format has a fixed length.
- In pasted text, a wrapped code that kept its line break inside quotes shows as a multi-line cell in the inspector; one that lost its quotes adds an extra short row.
Restoring the full identifier
- Decide from the source whether the break is part of the value; in nearly all identifiers it is not.
- In the app, tap the cell, type the complete code without a break and press Save. Remove a fragment row with Delete row.
- Check the code character by character against the page, since similar-looking characters such as 0 and O are easy to mix up.
- Keep the code out of the numeric normalizer, even when it contains only digits.
- For the final file, use the text-safe XLSX converter or the app's CSV export, so the code is not reinterpreted by a spreadsheet.
- If the codes have a known length, count the characters of each corrected value against it.
Limits of the tools
The browser tools preserve exactly what you give them. They cannot see the page, so they cannot know that two lines were meant to be one code, and they cannot restore characters lost before the paste. The decision belongs to you, with the source in front of you.
Note that the app's Copy option replaces a line break inside a cell with a space. A code that still contains a break becomes a code with a space in the paste, which is easy to miss. Fix the cell in the app before copying.