okhameed, have a look here for why filter mode might stay in the status bar

http://www.contextures.com/xlautofilter02.html#Count

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"okhameed" wrote in message
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how do i set autofilter results to always appear in the status bar of
excel
(e.g "4 of 38 records" displayed instead of "filter mode")