See Bar Coded Labels

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Graham Mayor - MS MVP (Word) (2002-2019)
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I read your page "https://www.gmayor.com/bar_coded_labels.htm " and had a question.



>>> However the field containing the data to be converted to a bar code, must be pre-entered with the Barcode start and end characters.<<<


What is meant here? You don't show any characters in the code column.


Also, is it difficult for MS to actually have a barcode typeface as they would Helvetica? Type in the characters, highlight, and the typeface changes. As an MVP I presume you would have better knowledge. I'm sure there is some technical reason.



Thank you,

Barcodes such as Code 128, 2D, etc., have no one-to-one relationship between the characters the barcode represents and the characters themselves, due to the compression algorithms etc. used to generate the barcode. In any event, if there were such barcode fonts (as there are for 3 of 9, for example), you wouldn't need to get them from MS.

In any event, why aren't you using Word's MERGEBARCODE field?

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Paul Edstein
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