Copy Google Sheets Status Bar — one-click copy for Sum/Avg/Count/Min/Max

If you use Google Sheets a lot, you probably know about the little status bar at the bottom-right—the one that shows Sum, Avg, Count, Min, and Max whenever you select cells. It’s great for quick checks… and slightly annoying when you need to paste those numbers into an email, ticket, online banking, or a document.

So I built Copy Status Bar Stats for Google Sheets: a tiny Firefox add-on that copies those values to your clipboard with a single click. No retyping. No squinting. Just click, paste, done.

The aim of the addon was to reduce mistakes from remembering long numbers or constantly CMD+tabbing to get back and forth to get the number.

It’s locale-aware too—so if your Sheets UI isn’t in English, it still recognizes the labels.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

Google Sheets’ implementation of the Status Bar shows quick calculations, but currently you cannot copy them to clipboard
Selecting some cells, choosing the type of calculation in the status bar, then clicking on the extension will copy it to clipboard

Who it’s for

  • Analysts & finance/ops doing quick ad-hoc checks all day.
  • Teachers & students pulling fast stats from homework sheets.
  • Product/Support folks pasting totals and counts into tickets, PRDs, or Slack.
  • Anyone who regularly selects a range and then… needs that number somewhere else.

Install

To install manually, download the release from Github and install an add-on using about:debugging in Firefox, open the page in your URL bar, click This Firefox, and then select Load Temporary Add-on. From there choose the packaged .zip file

Tip: After installing, click the puzzle-piece icon in Firefox and pin the extension so the button stays in your toolbar.

Real-world use cases

  • Budget check: Select a month’s expenses → copy Sum → paste into your budget doc.
  • QA count: Select a filtered column of IDs → copy Count → paste into your bug tracker.
  • Quick analytics: Select a block of measurements → copy Avg to share a snapshot in Slack.
  • Outliers glance: Grab Min or Max to annotate a report.

Privacy & permissions

  • Permissions used: activeTab, scripting, clipboardWrite, and host access for docs.google.com/*.
  • No tracking. No analytics. The add-on doesn’t send or store your data—ever.

If you have a suggestion or your locale isn’t recognized, open an issue on GitHub with a screenshot of your status bar text.

FAQ

Why not just Ctrl+C?
Because the status-bar numbers aren’t in a cell—they’re computed aggregates. This add-on grabs the displayed value directly and copies it for you.

Does it work if I’m not in English?
Yes, it looks for localized labels (e.g., “Sum”, “Soma”, “Somme”, “Summe”, “Suma”, “Somma”, “合計”, “Сумма”, “Σύνολο”) and the separators commonly used by Sheets.

Will it break my sheet or selection?
No. It doesn’t edit your sheet—it reads the status bar and writes to your clipboard.

If this saves you a few seconds (or a few typos) every day, I’d love a star on GitHub or a short review on the Mozilla Addons page.