The Word Status Bar

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The Word Status Bar
ARTICLE DATE: 04.17.09

By  Neil J. Rubenking

In Word 2003 the status bar displays a number of useful status items that have vanished in Word 2007. Maybe you don’t need an indicator to let you know that macro recording is on, or that extended selection is enabled, but it can be awfully handy to see at a glance that Word is tracking changes or that your keystrokes will overtype existing text.

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The Word Options dialog won’t help. You can scan it ’til your eyes cross without finding any settings to bring back those handy indicators. What you need to do is right-click the status bar itself. That brings up a menu of 20 distinct items that can appear on the status bar. Now you can have it your own way.