A very simple search of this newsgroup came up with:
Application.StatusBar = "My message"

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Toby Erkson
Oregon, USA
Excel 2002 in Windows XP

"caneau" wrote in message
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Sorry, the status bar text is completely different of what is shown in the
comment box, which shows the user name by default
Any other advice ?
B.C.

"BrianB " a écrit dans le message de
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FWIW in Excel 97 the message picks up the user name from
Tools/options/General ... User Name.

Perhaps changing this would at least make the message more helpful.


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