Bug 148946

Summary: Add option for hiding grid lines under overflowing text
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Peter Mandrella <peter>
Component: CalcAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Peter Mandrella 2022-05-05 09:14:33 UTC 
Description:
Feature request: Improve readability of longer texts - spanning multiple cells - by (optionally) hiding the grid lines that would cut trough the text.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable the text overflow markers in Calc display settings.
2. Enter a text into a cell that overflows to the next cell.


Actual Results:
Grid lines between the cells cut through the text.

Expected Results:
Hide those grid lines.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
This is the sole feature of good old Quattro Pro that I am missing with LibreOffice. Nice looking and readable long texts.
Comment 1 Peter Mandrella 2022-05-05 09:37:19 UTC 
As a workaround, those cells can be manually combinend. But that's lot of additional action in spreadsheeds with many and/or volatile texts. Dynamically hiding the intersecting grid lines is much easier to use.
Comment 2 Shinji Enoki 2022-09-06 11:43:58 UTC 
Ask Japanese version has the same question as this issue
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/topic/81059