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How to create barcodes in excel?
In setting up an inventory worksheet, it would be very helpful to have
product numbers (SKU) in barcode format for scanning. Is it possible to create barcodes within Excel? |
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hi,
yes. barcodes are just another font. excel uses 3 of 9 barcode. Other barcode fonts can be downloaded from the net. formatcellsfont tabat the top of the font list. -----Original Message----- In setting up an inventory worksheet, it would be very helpful to have product numbers (SKU) in barcode format for scanning. Is it possible to create barcodes within Excel? . |
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A bar code is generally more complex that just changing the font.
Bar codes contain special start and stop patterns and most types of bar codes also use a very complex algorithm for producing the correct bar/space pattern in the bar code for a given message being encoded. The only type of bar code that can be implemented using a font without having to write any code to process the message data first is Code 39 and even with Code 39 you still need to include start and stop characters (usually an asterisk) at the beginning and the end of the message before changing its font to a bar code font. Even after you do this, you will still end up with a very low quality bar code that may or may not read depending on a number of factors (printer resolution, font size, how good your bar code scanner is, etc.) Bar code fonts generally produce very poor quality bar codes. The best way to add bar codes to an Excel spreadsheet is to use a tool that generates a high resolution vector style image of a bar code. TAL Technologies sells a product called B-Coder Professional that is basically a bar code graphic generator. B-Coder produces very high resolution Windows metafile images of all bar codes and it also takes care of adding start/stop codes as well as all the complex details of generating the correct bar code from a given message being encoded. B-Coder also has a DDE interface that allows you to automate the production of bar codes directly from within other programs like Excel. For example, you could have a very simple Excel macro that reads down a column of bar code message data and converts each bar code message to a bar code image that is inserted directly into the spreadsheet. If you want very high quality bar codes that are guaranteed to be readable then B-Coder would be the better way to go. You can download a demo version of B-Coder Pro at the following web page: http://www.taltech.com/products/barcode_software.html You can also find a very good Excel sample spreadsheet containing a macro that generates bar codes directly in Excel using B-Coder at the following URL: http://www.taltech.com/support/bckb/txt2Barcode.xls On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:01:05 -0800, "Trapper" wrote: In setting up an inventory worksheet, it would be very helpful to have product numbers (SKU) in barcode format for scanning. Is it possible to create barcodes within Excel? |
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