But you can just drag the input field larger and add line breaks?

FriedrichN · on July 23, 2021

You could, but when you finally press enter it's all compressed back to one line.

HPsquared · on July 23, 2021

It doesn't get compressed back, I often break complex formulas into multiple lines with indentation.

The only disadvantage is if someone else isn't expecting the formulas to be like this, then gets confused when they can only see the first line.

catherd · on July 23, 2021

Huh. Well, LibreOffice still can't preserve the formatting. Not sure if the last version of real-Excel I tried could.

Having the compose box fit itself to the formula size or give other indication that there is more to see is still a head-scratcher why they didn't do it.

CRConrad · on July 23, 2021

> real-Excel

???

:-(