Customize the display of status bar totals

- [Instructor] Sometimes when you're viewing data,…you want some quick totals at your fingertips…without necessarily writing formulas.…In this worksheet called Split Freeze,…in the chapter three movie, it's a list…of about 700 rows.…As I click column L, the New Compensation column,…at the bottom of the screen, I see the total, 56,487,000.…I can also see an average, count,…how many cells have actual data.…Also how many cells have actual numbers.…

Even a minimum and a maximum.…You might not be seeing all of these options.…If you right click in the status bar,…you will see a ton of potential choices.…But the six choices right here,…average through sum, are the ones…you want to consider making be visible.…Now possibly if you're looking at this feature…on your screen, maybe some of these are not checked.…They're not always necessary.…Rarely do I care how many numbers are in the cells.…Sometimes I will.…Sometimes I care about minimum and maximum,…other times not.…

But why not leave them all checked?…That means any time we highlight two or more cells,…