Barcode, labelling and utility software

Barcode Macros for Office

- The complete barcode solution for Microsoft Office

Barcode Macros for Office provides a collection of macros for converting a selected item (text in Word, one or more cells in Excel or Access) into high quality barcode pictures or font based barcodes, and Active-X controls for use on documents, spreadsheets, forms or reports. The macros are suitable for use in Office 2000 or later, including Office 2007. The product also includes an in-cell formula module for Excel, allowing font-based barcode to be created using an in-cell formula.

Macro source code is included to allow for easy customisation.

           
Access                            Excel
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Features:

•  Easy to use - just select, point and click.
•  New in-cell formula for Excel
•  Includes Active-X control for dynamic barcode production.
•  Macro source code included for easy customisation
•  May be called from your own macros, modules, or key shortcuts.
•  Macros are provided for all common barcode types
•  Checkdigits may be calculated automatically.
•  Margin indicators and bearer bars may be turned on/off for codes which support these items.
•  Bar width control for wet-ink printing allows 0 - 50% width reduction.
•  Font properties may be user selected
•  Nominal size barcodes for types which specify a nominal (100%) size.

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Barcode Macros for Office supports: 2 of 5, 3 of 9, Australia Post, Codabar, Code 11, Code 39, Extended Code 39, Code 93, Extended Code 93, Code 128, Code B, Deutschen Post, DUN14, EAN- 8, EAN-13, EAN-14, GS1/EAN/UCC-128, Infomail, ISBN, ISMN, ISSN, ITF-14, ITF-6, Interleaved 2 of 5, Italian Post 2/5, Italian Post 3/9, JAN, Korean Postal Authority, Matrix 2 of 5, MSI (Modified Plessey), OneCode, Plessey, PostNet, Planet & FIM, Royal Mail 4 State, SSCC, SICI/SISAC, Swiss Post, Telepen (numeric and ASCII), UCC14, UPC-A, UPC-E

Licensing

Available as a single computer product or as a multi-user version for installation on up to 10 PCs.
Note: Barcode Macros for Office is an end-user product. Developers requiring similar functionality for redistribution should use the dBarcode-1D Developers Kit.

System requirements

Requires Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and one or more of the following components of Microsoft Office: Word (2000-2007), Excel (2000-2007), Access (2000-2007). Includes samples for Office 2000/2002, Office 2003 and Office 2007.

Active barcodes in Word

An Active Barcode Control may be placed on a Word document 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) and choosing Active Barcode Control from the list of Object types available. In Word 2007 the toolbox appears in the Control pane of the Developer toolbar. To make the Developer toolbar visible select the Office icon, choose Word Options and in the Popular pane check the checkbox labelled “Show Developer tab in the ribbon”.

The default barcode image is displayed. Right click on the image and choose Properties from the pop-up menu.
The Properties box shows the current properties of the barcode which may be edited as required – including the Caption property which sets the barcode data.

Note that the control can be selected and its properties displayed only when Word is in Design mode. Design mode may be turned on or off using the top lefthand icon of the Control toolbox (or the Design mode icon in Office 2007).

Word and Mail-merge

Word's mail-merge is suitable only for font-based barcodes. The merge data must already exist and contain the correct characters to form the barcode when displayed in the barcode font. While the data can come from any source a typical example is where the data is in an Excel spreadsheet and where the font-based barcodes within the spreadsheet have already been created using the FBarcode macro within Excel, or by using the in-line barcode() function.

A sample mail-merge group of files is provided in the mailmerge subdirectory of the Barcode Macros installation directory.

In-cell Barcode() formula for Excel

The function barcode(cell,code,flags) enables the contents of a cell to show a font-based barcode based on the data in another cell simply by placing the formula =Barcode(cell,code,flags) into the cell. eg =barcode(A1,9,0) produces a Code 128 barcode in the cell using data from the cell A1.

Similarly the function barcodeH(cell,code,flags) returns the human readable version of the barcode (including any checkdigit character calculated automatically if flags=1).

The code for these functions is included in the macros module.

Note that, by default, formulae in Excel are normally recalculated when Excel recognises that the data for the formula changes. However, we recommend forcing a recalculation of all formulae in the spreadsheet before assuming that all barcodes have been updated. The way of forcing recalculation depends on the version of Excel, so see you Excel Help for details. In most case SHIFT+F9 recalculates the current worksheet.

Active Barcodes 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 - typically as a field in a database table.

Notes

This product is suitable for use with Word's Mail-merge when font-based barcodes are used.

In Word the PBarcode macros replace the selected text with a barcode Picture; the FBarcode macros replace the selected text with a font-based barcode.

In Excel's sheet view the PBarcode macros take the code(s) from one or more selected cells and position the barcode image(s) over the adjacent cell, adjusting the row height to accommodate the image. The FBarcode macros insert the font-based barcode text into the adjacent cell and set the selected barcode font. (Of course the macros can be edited to change the destination). The control may be placed on a spreadsheet and its data source linked to a specified cell.

In Access's datasheet view the PBarcode macros take the code(s) from one or more selected records' BarcodeSource field and paste each barcode image as a picture into the Barcode field. The FBarcode macros take data from one or more selected records BarcodeSource field and place the font-based barcode into the Barcode field. This Barcode field may act as the source for a picture or text control on a form or report. The Active-X control may be placed on a form or report and its data taken from a table or query.

The dLSoft Barcode Macros for Office PBarcode macros creates images that are stored within the document, spreadsheet or table. For large spreadsheets or databases this can result in very large file sizes, and in such cases the FBarcode macros or the Active-X control are recommended.

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