[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 91005] Cell border should be hidden when text crosses over cell border

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91005

--- Comment #9 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> Enhanced your request a bit but it's still about the default behavior. There
> might be users who want to keep the old behavior or want to cut the text,
> and therefore my advise is to introduce the enhancement as a choice. Also,
> the default is one thing but there might be documents that need a different
> layout. Therefore I vote for having the choice of the default plus an option
> to override it per document.

In my view, there would be no users who would want the cell border to cut
through the text (aka the current behaviour). If a user doesnt like the current
behaviour, they have the ability to manually set how they want the text to
appear (e.g. merge, wrap), but doubt we want to set a document level option for
what it should do in this circumstance. I'll let Eike give his opinion on this
document level option? 

(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #8)
> Adding logic to hide specific border (right or left) of otherwise rendered
> cell grid seems rather a waste of time.

We currently hide the border when you are typing in a blank cell or in edit
mode (F2), so logic is already present for this behaviour.

> This falls into that category of trying to make a spreadsheet do layout
> feats it is not intended to do.

This happens in Excel, Calligra Sheets, Gnumeric, Google Sheets, and Quattro
Pro[1], so i would assume its not out of bounds of what a spreadsheet should
do, especially when it improves UX.

[1] If there is no assigned border, it will remove the grid border, but if
there is a border, it will trim the text and show the border

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