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human
ELI5: Why do spreadsheet programs like excel and google sheets have the default text wrapping set to 'overflow'? It seems like everyone switches it to "wrap".

Is there some use for excel that's extremely common that I don't know about that uses overflow frequently?
gpt
Spreadsheets are made mostly for numbers. Numbers are usually not as long as text so wrapping isn't as likely to happen. Another reason is that reading down a list with uneven row heights isn't as easy and doesn't look as good.