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

[Patti Bowles]

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

 

[Kevin B]

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.