Selected items (eg count) does not show up on status bar
 

I am trying to get the character count on a cell. In the status bar I have
slected count but nothing shows up on the status bar, so i tried them all and
the only ones that show up are the zoom and macro record butoon

Selected items (eg count) does not show up on status bar
 

To get the character count you need to use the LEN function.

In a blank cell type the following substituting the cell you want to count
characters in:

=LEN(A1)

The function returns a count of each character in the cell. The count
function on the status bar counts the number of entries in a selected range,
not the specific character contents of a cell.

Hope this helps.


--
Kevin Backmann


"Patti Bowles" wrote:

I am trying to get the character count on a cell. In the status bar I have
slected count but nothing shows up on the status bar, so i tried them all and
the only ones that show up are the zoom and macro record butoon