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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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We just switched to 2013 and I am crying the blues. Has anyone found a fix for the status bar disappearing? The earlier suggestion of creating another "instance" of Excel does not work.
I am going to download Open Office onto my computer so I can get some work done.
While late to the party, I have to agree with all the above comments, why would you add a "Feature" that probably took more work then without and makes using exel more painful and tedious. While there might be workarounds there are very good reasons to not run multiple instances especially when you have split up the single instance into multiple windows instead of contained within one window. Side note please look at google spreadsheets and take note of some of the nice convent cell equation and array features they contain.
Hi,
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Thank you.
Can't believe you haven't put a patch for this issue