https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160011
--- Comment #3 from ady <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Dan Dascalescu from comment #2) > If you mean hidden columns are used to force text clipping in cells instead > of overflowing, that's a dubious practice Why is that dubious? Are you saying that other spreadsheet tools have been doing it differently during the last 3 decades? Please clarify by sharing examples of such tools (with versions please). > LibreCalc should have a > "Clip" option under Format Cells -> Alignment -> Properties. @Dan, While I think your request is worth a discussion, let's not mix things. Your request is about a visual behavior, but it is not really an alignment setting for the cell. It is still possible that some other spreadsheet tool has this kind of setting and that it calls this an "alignment" alternative. It would be helpful to have specific examples of such tools. The cell could be, say, centered, and still have some kind of overflow, exactly as you described. Moreover, if a "clipped" overflow would be some kind of cell attribute, what would be the possible other ("non-clipped") settings? Depending on alignment and content, you could have clipped overflow on one side of the cell, or the other, or both, or none (and for each case, we have several possible alignments). Now, assuming this kind of visual re-fresh would happen as you request, I would be concerned about its performance consequences. Changing one cell (or an entire column, as you described in comment 0) would affect another column (not only the adjacent ones), even when the affected columns would have unrelated content (e.g. formulas that don't relate these columns in any way). That sounds similar to volatile formulas, and such scenario is expensive (i.e. can have negative performance consequences). To sum up: worth a discussion; not yet convinced; visual behavior; not necessarily an alignment setting (but related in its influence on the visual result); an example of some other spreadsheet tool with this behavior/setting would help. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
