As always, Thank you for your quick response. This solved the mystery.

"Sean Timmons" wrote:

Put your worjksheet calculation in manual. If you have formulas in yoru
workbook, they will calculate on filterand wipe out your count.

"mbparks" wrote:

How can I assure that the count of filtered items will appear in the lower
left corner in Excel when I apply a filter to a column. I do not want to
have to highlight the column to get the count.

Thank you for your time.