Does any one know how to use bar codes in Microsoft Office XP?

Answer 1

There are several ways to do barcodes in MS Office (or more specifically, MS Word, as you rarely use barcodes outside of Word) Any version of Office, in fact.

The easiest way is TrueType font. Buy/download the right symbology font, scale them to the right size, put them where you need them like regular characters. Make sure you follow the syntax though. Some symbologies, like Code 39/3 of 9, are rather forgiving, and just needs an asterisk at beginning and end of barcode. Others, like UPC-EAN, you need to calculate a checksum digit to append at the end, and that may require a special formula / code of some sort to generate the full string.

Next would be a WMF generator. This basically is a DLL in memory. You feed a string to it, it'll spit back a WMF, which is basically a graphics file you can then embed into the document.

The TrueType method is probably easier to implement in almost any problem. I've created Access / Paradox reports that used TrueType barcode fonts for a variety of documents that needed to be tracked and its data entered, and barcodes have just about eliminated all the errors in that.

I'll list a few companies that deal with barcodes I've used before. Rest is up to you.

Worthington Data Solutions
Seagull Scientific
Wasp

Answer 2

If u wanted to know abt the software's, then i know a software called label view .... u need to buy it and it has database connection option too..

u can print a barcode with that software from a windows XP machine.


Hope this helps u ..... !

Answer 3

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