I was just thinking that again this morning, it would be easy to copy out of this status cell...
What you can do is:
right click cell > copy status to edit
answer the question (copy only current) in the popup window (which if your lucky is not on another monitor)
double click on the newly created edit cell to select all text
right click on text > copy
I too wish it was easier to copy and paste in the data views. Ctrl+X, C and V don't work, and you can only cut, copy and paste after selecting cell contents. But it does work.