title: Pop up the Excel Statusbar?
body: <p>I'm developing an application for excel that takes a long time to run so it would be nice to have a progress bar pop up and give some indication of the progress. I was looking at the <code>Statusbar</code> property in Excel and it seems to cover what I need except that it's not very obvious i.e. it's a tiny little notice in the bottom left that had I not been expecting I wouldn't have noticed which I find quite unsatisfactory. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to have the status bar pop up in a new <code>MsgBox</code> style window similar to what you might expect with a file transfer on windows? A progress bar type object actually displayed in the excel sheet like in <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211736">this example</a> is not ideal and I'm looking for a better solution.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Office 2010 on Windows.</p>