A lot safer than changing a cell's content would be to show the status
bar if appropriate.

Changing a cell requires (at a minimum) the following assumptions:

The cell is in the visible portion of a window.

That portion of the window is not obscured by another window

The cell is empty

Changing that cell will not trigger any other cascading changes

Changing the workbook's status to 'dirty' is acceptable

Neither the cell's row and column is hidden.

The cell's height and width are sufficiently large to show the progress
status

The cell's format (font size, color, pattern color, etc.) allow for a
visible progress status.

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In article ,
says...
Not Everyone may have the status bar visible, so you might want to try
putting some text in a cell and then removing it -
Sheet1.Range("A2").Value = "Calculating...."
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Some code
Sheet1.Range("A2").Value = ""
Application.ScreenUpdating = True

Mike F
"Don Guillett" wrote in message
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statusbar="running"
code
statusbar=""

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"Neil Hopkinson" <Neil wrote in
message
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I have written a macro which takes a minute or so to run. I want to set
up
a
progress bar so the user can see something happening and knows the
program
hasn't crashed. How do I do this?