1. make sure the status bar is showing by viewclick by status bar
2. try it
3. if not right click on status barselect sum instead of none

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"Roxy" wrote in message
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Working with excel in accounting, I used to just highlight the data
(numbers)
and would see a quick sum of the highlighted data on the very bottom gray
area of excel. It dissapeared. How do I retrieve?
Thank you so much!