From 81de56019b76d4318fa65df7ac01a8456c435eff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: abokey1 <113783165+abokey1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:24:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Clarifies the description of if_sheet_exists in
 pd.ExcelWriter (#52189)

---
 pandas/io/excel/_base.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/io/excel/_base.py b/pandas/io/excel/_base.py
index 3c1ecffe21353..8c3bbb7798f68 100644
--- a/pandas/io/excel/_base.py
+++ b/pandas/io/excel/_base.py
@@ -942,8 +942,8 @@ class ExcelWriter(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
         * error: raise a ValueError.
         * new: Create a new sheet, with a name determined by the engine.
         * replace: Delete the contents of the sheet before writing to it.
-        * overlay: Write contents to the existing sheet without removing the old
-          contents.
+        * overlay: Write contents to the existing sheet without first removing,
+          but possibly over top of, the existing contents.
 
         .. versionadded:: 1.3.0