How to display multi lines in an Excel cell WITHOUT wrapping

I know about using Alt+Enter to add carriage returns to a cell, and they display fine at the top editing panel, but not within the cell itself.

If I turn on wrapping, it shows as multi line, but each line in the multi-line doesn't 'bleed' into the next column.

However, if I turn wrapping off, it stupidly becomes a single line of text. I want the best of both worlds, for it to display as multiline AND for the text to bleed over into the next column.

Is there a way to fix this?

However, if I turn wrapping off, it stupidly becomes a single line of text. I want the best of both worlds, for it to display as multiline AND for the text to bleed over into the next column.

Is there a way to fix this?

NO, there is no way to fix that.

You play around with merging cells and text wrapping together, however it'll never be an optimal solution.

Please keep in mind that Excel is a spreadsheet application designed to manage tabular data; and it is not a document editor.