The status bar shows the current mode of Excel.
Mode Indicators
The Status Bar is the area at the bottom of the Excel screen that shows the Zoom level, the viewing mode, and the current mode.
Status Bar
On the status bar you will see a message telling you to choose a destination to paste to.
The Mode Indicator, which will show the word "Ready".
In Excel you can calculate the mode from the set of values by using the MODE function. If you wanted the mode from the range of cells from A2 to D50, then it would be:=MODE(A2:D50)
There is no ruler bar in MS Excel. That is an MS Word function.
As Excel starts you will see the words Microsoft Excel in the title bar. After a few seconds the first worksheet will appear and then in the title bar a hyphen and Book1 will also appear beside Microsoft Excel. So what you will see is this: Microsoft Excel - Book1
The Formula Bar.
insert mode
It changes to Edit mode.
If you have gone to full screen mode, then pressing the F11 key will return the toolbars and menu bar that you had open. You can also get them through the Toolbars option on the View menu.