It depends on where you're at on the sheet.

If you select A1 and drag to D1 before you let go of the mouse button look
at the name box and it will tell you the size of the selected range like 1R
x 4C.

Now, if you select A1 and drag to AA1 as soon as column A scrolls out of the
window and before you let go of the mouse button then you get a little
"balloon" that shows the selection size like 1R x 27C.

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Big Pauly" <Big wrote in message
...
My version of excel used to function such that when I would be selecting
my
data range for a vlookup, as I was holding and moving my cursor, a box
would
appear showing me the count of rows I was going over so I could set my
column
index. It doesn't do that anymore. How do I turn this feature back on?