Retain SUM in status bar when switching to another Excel window

[ben98gs]

We recently switched to Excel 2013 at work (had 2007 prior to that). Under Excel 2007, I could open up a window/file and then open another file in a separate window/instance of Excel 2013 and have them on two different screens. If I needed summation info from one file, I could highlight the cells and the sum would show in the lower status bar, when I would switch to the other Excel screen, the sum would remain/still show on the other screen.

With Excel 2013 if I try to do this, the sum disappears from the status bar when I go to the other Excel file. If I go back, it shows back up.

Is there a way to force Excel 2013 to continue to show this when I switch screens? I have tried what I did before (open one file, then go to start menu and open another Excel 2013 which opens a new/blank document, at which case I open the second file), but it no longer works.

[newdoverman]

If you have the two instances of Excel on one screen side by side do you have the same problem?

[ben98gs]

Sorry, I just had a chance to test this. Same screen does not seem to matter, the sum still disappears from the one when you make the other the active.

[newdoverman]

This might be just how Excel 2013 works. I have heard that there are some strange things that Excel 2013 does and this might be one of them.