Right-click on the status bar and select what you want from the menu.

None, Average, Count etc.

In your case.......Sum


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:29:03 -0800, "shoe gal"
wrote:

I want to be able to highligt a column or row of numbers and see the sum in
the status bar. Right now it shows "MIN" and you can view only the first
number hightlighted.