The gray bar is the "Status Bar" and if you right-click on it you will get the
list of options.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:40:00 -0700, Lost is Allentown <Lost is
wrote:

HELP!
I used to be able to use my mouse to highlight a range of cells in Excel and
have the sum, min, max, avg, etc displayed at the bottom of the spreadsheet
in what looked like a gray toolbar that was below the tabs of the spreadsheet
and contained the word 'Ready'. Somehow I lost the ability to do this. Is
this an Option, Toolbar, or what that I need to turn on to activate this
feature again?