Status Bar Sum Total Disappears

Anonymous
2014-01-15T20:49:51+00:00

I use a two monitor system and will have MS Excel 2013 running on both.  On one monitor I can select a range of numbers and the sum total will show in he status bar.  When I select a cell in the workbook on my other monitor the sum total disappears.  Is there a way to not have the sum total disappear?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-13T16:53:16+00:00

    I agree with the rest of the group. My office just "upgraded" to 2013 as well and the removal of this feature is a huge inconvenience. I work on multiple workbooks often and used the feature to add items in one workbook and put the total in a second. Now if I forget the total, I have to click back on the original spreadsheet, then click back on the second. Please put out a patch to bring this feature back!

    This is the same situation for me. This feature has always been present in past versions of Excel. Does Microsoft even use its own product? Because if they did, they would have noticed this and would realize why it is such a big deal for this feature to be missing. This is a shocking oversight that makes their product less productive and could not have been intentional. Someone at Microsoft goofed pretty big on this one and it's sad they are not working to fix it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-07-09T13:24:54+00:00

    I agree with the rest of the group. My office just "upgraded" to 2013 as well and the removal of this feature is a huge inconvenience. I work on multiple workbooks often and used the feature to add items in one workbook and put the total in a second. Now if I forget the total, I have to click back on the original spreadsheet, then click back on the second. Please put out a patch to bring this feature back!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-01T15:04:12+00:00

    This is a terrible update and could not be less helpful to me in my day to day work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-05-28T19:16:51+00:00

    Hi,

    We understand how you feel about the situation. We're sorry for the trouble this has caused.

    We listen to all feedback and consider them for additional feature/future versions of our products. Your feedback helps us know which features are most important to you. However, for a variety of reasons we cannot discuss planned features, their priorities, or the dates that we expect these features to be released.

    If you have any queries related to Office products, feel free to reply and we'll be happy to assist you.

    Thank you.

    I have to throw in my two cents of agreement.  It was something I used several times a day, and now it's gone.  This is a huge disadvantage for me.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-04-22T07:30:27+00:00

    Hi,

    We understand how you feel about the situation. We're sorry for the trouble this has caused.

    We listen to all feedback and consider them for additional feature/future versions of our products. Your feedback helps us know which features are most important to you. However, for a variety of reasons we cannot discuss planned features, their priorities, or the dates that we expect these features to be released.

    If you have any queries related to Office products, feel free to reply and we'll be happy to assist you.

    Thank you.

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