Hello, I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to check for
a particular condition on the status bar. I would like to be able to
verify - obviously by a means other than actually looking at the status
bar - whether the status bar displays "calculate". If you know how to
do this please let me know. Thanks.

Try checking

application.StatusBar

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Hello, I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to check for
a particular condition on the status bar. I would like to be able to
verify - obviously by a means other than actually looking at the status
bar - whether the status bar displays "calculate". If you know how to
do this please let me know. Thanks.

Do you mean the "Calculating..." that Excel can show there whilst it is
updating the cells ?
If so, I don't believe you can tell directly, because Excel has control on
the Status bar at that moment.
You can test that with:
If Application.StatusBar = False Then
although I'm not sure if this would run until the calculation has finished.

If you are controlling the Statusbar, then you can test its value
If Application.StatusBar ="calculate" Then

NickHK
P.S. You could try the Windows API on the StatusBar, as it is class EXCEL4
and exposes a handle.


wrote in message
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Hello, I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to check for
a particular condition on the status bar. I would like to be able to
verify - obviously by a means other than actually looking at the status
bar - whether the status bar displays "calculate". If you know how to
do this please let me know. Thanks.