Google-sheets – How to make text flow out of a cell as it does in Excel

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If you enter a long bit of text into a cell in Microsoft's Excel the text flows out of the cell over the top of the adjacent cells. This doesn't happen by default in Google Spreadsheet – it flows under the adjacent cells.

Is there a way to make Google Spreadsheet behave like Excel in this way?

(This is nothing to do with wrapping or re-sizing cells.)

Best Answer

Seems to do what you want by default (maybe because New Google Sheets?). You say (This is nothing to do with wrapping or re-sizing cells.) yet it does seem to be a matter of wrapping:

WA42297 example

I think A1 is what you require. But as with Excel, the text in A2 is truncated where there is content in B2. A3 may be what you are describing as undesirable, achieved here with clicking the icon shown on the extreme right of the image.