The status bar is displayed at the bottom of the Pro-Designer window. To display or hide the status bar, use the Status Bar command in the View menu.
As you highlight menu items, or move with the cursor over toolbar buttons, Pro-Designer uses the left side of the status bar to flash a short description of the menu item (or button action) your cursor is currently over. This area also is used sometimes to display error messages (accompanied by a beeping sound) generated during a Pro-Designer’s operation (e.g. during stream drawing) when it is not appropriate to bring up an error dialog.
The right areas of the status bar indicate which of the following keys are latched down:
| Indicator | Description |
| CAP | The Caps Lock key is latched down. |
| NUM | The Num Lock key is latched down. |
| SCRL | The Scroll Lock key is latched down. |