If the Status Bar is also missing....

Try this:

From the Excel main menu:
<tools<optons<view tab
CHECK: Status Bar

Does that help?
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Regards,
Ron

XL2002, WinXP


"Joyousmarie" wrote:

I used to be able to highlight selected cells and the summation of the cells
would appear at the bottom of the screen. I don't know what happened to turn
this feature off and I can't find where to turn it back on. Can anyone
please help?