Active Barcode in Access

An Active Barcode Control may be placed on an Access form or report by selecting the More Controls icon in the toolbox (which, if not visible, can be displayed by checking the Controls Toolbox member of the View – Toolbars menu), or by choosing Active-X Controls from the Insert menu and choosing Active Barcode Control from the list of controls available. In Access 2007 the Active-X Controls item appears on the Design toolbar..

A default barcode image appears on the report. Right-clicking on the barcode and selecting Properties from the pop-up menu causes the control’s Properties dialog to be displayed.

In addition to allowing all the barcode properties to be set, the properties dialog also allows the control’s source to be selected – Field2 in the example below.

The sample database ActiveDemo.mdb illustrates the use of the Active Barcode Control on a form and a report, in both case the barcode data is taken from field2 of Table1.

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