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Hide Overflowing Text For Google Sheets Column

I imported a big CSV into a new Google Sheets document. This included a "Description" column with many of the descriptions varying between 50 and 80 characters. The bottom line is that the description column was flowing over the top of the columns next to it. Instead of expanding the width of that column as far as the largest description, I wanted to hide the overflow.

The way to do this in Google Sheets is to highlight the entire column by clicking on the column grouping. Then under the Format menu item is a Wrapping submenu. The Clip option is what I was looking for because it clips the text that gets shown at the edge of the column.