Max characters allowed on statur bar?

[mcomp72]

Hi all. For a workbook I'm building, I'm displaying some information on the status bar, so the user can always see it, no matter what worksheet they happen to be on.

I updated my Excel 2016 (for Windows) the other day for the first time in a long time. (I had Office updates turned off for the longest time due to an iCloud/Outlook issue that has since been fixed.) Now on the status bar, it doesn't show the entirety of the message I want displayed there. The last two characters don't show up, and instead it shows a '...' where the last two characters should be. Does anyone know if there is a maximum number of characters that are allowed for messages on the status bar? Or is there a default number that we can change using VBA? I would love for the entire message to be displayed, if possible.

 

[Macropod]

Cross-posted at: http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?63763-Max-characters-allowed-on-status-bar
Please read Mr Excel's policy on Cross-Posting in rule 13: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/board-announcements/99490-forum-rules.html

 

[mcomp72]

Cross-posted at: http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/showthread.php?63763-Max-characters-allowed-on-status-bar
Please read Mr Excel's policy on Cross-Posting in rule 13: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/board-announcements/99490-forum-rules.html

Oh, I did not know it was not allowed to post the same question to a completely different message board. I did not receive an answer to my post here, so I thought it prudent to post the question elsewhere after several days, in the hopes different people would see it and might be able to help. Certainly did not intentionally violate any rules. Sorry for that.

To anyone reading this, I would like to ask if you could please reply to the following question: has anyone ever experienced the issue I am having? If you have, what version of Excel are you running? It would be good to know if it is something specific to my computer, or perhaps something specific to the latest update to Office 365. I have no idea where to even begin to troubleshoot it.

 

[mcomp72]

I have not received a response to this post, so I just posted the same question on another forum. Link to that post is here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52673897/excel-2016-vba-status-bar-not-showing-complete-message