This is because there is some code in the macro that is telling the status
bar to display this.

Application.StatusBar = "table:1"

Most likely this was done so that the person running the macro will have
some sort of status indicating how far the code has run.

HTH,
Paul

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After running a simple macro on a worksheet, the status bar reads
"table:1" then "table:2" and finally "table:3". I've never seen this
before. Why is excel displaying these messages?

Thanks