PERFECT - your answer was spot on....thank you O' Great and Wonderous one!

You can't know the trials and tribulations I had because I didn't know the
name of the function....its in the STATUS BAR...Duh...

Thanks for making my Month!

"Mike H" wrote:

Maybe:-

Tools|Options|View
ensure status bar is checked.

Mike

"Raj Bartakke" wrote:

Upon highlighting numeric cells in Excel, a display at bottom shows the sum.
I don't have a window below my tabs to show me this...for some reason it is
gone so I can't see the auto sum. Excel also allows you to highlight cells
to check average and other funcitons as well. How do I get this function to
display in my configuration of excel.