Do you mean the AutoFilter? If so, when your list has many formulas, or
if a cell in the list is changed after an AutoFilter has been applied,
the Status Bar may show "Filter Mode" instead of a count of the visible
records.
The following MSKB article has information:
The AutoFilter status bar displays the "Filter Mode" message in Excel
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?id=213886
And there are a couple of workarounds here:
http://www.contextures.com/xlautofilter02.html#Count
Charlie Rowe wrote:
> Advanced Filter had been telling me the Number of Records Found (in the lower
> left of my screen.) Now it has stopped doing that, on the same set of data.
> Any ideas on what I have changed?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie Rowe
>
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