Manipulating the AutoCAD Status Bar

What is the status bar? It is that thing at the bottom of your drafting window that looks like this:

Now, in my opinion, the icons are pretty, but I would rather have the words, so I don't have to think too much when I am changing settings. So, right click on any one of these buttons and deselect 'Use Icons'

This will give you named buttons:

But, that is a lot of buttons, especially since we don't use many of them in sprinkler design. Next, right click on any button again and pick Display to show the buttons available. Deselect the ones you do not want, unfortunately you can only turn one off at a time and will need to start the process over.

In my case I left the following on and turned off the rest:

Resulting in:

Much better...