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When you are creating VBA macros, you can place a message on the status bar by using (oddly enough) the StatusBar property. For instance, the statement
StatusBar = "I'm working as fast as I can..."
will print the message within the quote marks on the status bar. If you use the StatusBar property, you can keep users informed about what your macro is doing. (After all, it's best not to leave them wondering.) If you want to "turn off" what is displayed in the status bar, you can do so by using the following statement:
StatusBar = ""
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2016-12-07 01:01:51
John Davidson
Later ... On a whim, I commented out a SendKeys "{ESC}" - and the status bar is now behaving. So using the virtual keyboard messes up programming use of the Status Bar
2016-12-07 00:03:10
When displaying a message on the status bar at the end of a subroutine, it doesn't always remain in place when the subroutine ends. It can get overwritten by Word's standard status bar even before the user touches the keyboard or anything else. If you flash up a Word dialogue box and dismiss just before the end of a sub, for example. Even if you add a wait statement to let the screen settle down before displaying the status bar. Anyone got any ideas on how to make the status bar message stay around until the user types or clicks something?
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