" wrote:
Any idea why the status bar update "stalls", and why the
"stall" is erratic?

I meant to also ask: is there perhaps some VBA or Excel option
that would force a synchronous update of the status bar?

Of course, that ass-u-me-s that my guess of the root cause of
the problem is correct.

PS: My apologies for the poor VBA formatting. I don't know
why the indentation was "lost".