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Asked: 2026-06-13T04:34:18+00:00

Normally when you type enough characters in cell A1, they display over the cell(s)

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Normally when you type enough characters in cell A1, they display over the cell(s) to the right (B1, C1, etc.).
I had a workbook where this was the case, then suddenly I noticed that the text in A1 only displayed in A1 and no longer displayed over the cells to the right. Cells B1, C1, etc. were completely empty/deleted/cleared. I could find no cell formatting like wrap text or otherwise that would cause this.

Is there a setting, global or otherwise, that would cause or allow this behavior?

Merge cells sort of makes the text appear as desired, but it doesn’t make sense that this is the best fix. The cells were never merged before, and don’t need to be merged in a new workbook for the “normal” behavior to be seen.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found the culprit setting: Show Formulas (Formulas ribbon tab, Formula Auditing). The shortcut for this command is Ctrl+`. My backward single quote is right above my tab key, so I bet when I was Ctrl+tabbing between multiple spreadsheets I accidentally enabled Show Formulas. I was in the data-entry area of my workbook, so it took me a while to notice formulas were displayed instead of results.

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