Hi,

Thanks to bhsmaths and barcodewiz for their great information.
Oddly, we found a way to make the barcode show up on a merge document.
I'll point out that this is not a label; the barcode is showing up on
an 8 by 11 piece of paper.

I used a font file called "IDAutomation.com Code39". What happened is
that our scanners (socket handscanner plugged into viewsonic pocket pc)
won't read the barcode at all. We took the same scanner and read in
some labels that also are supposed to be using barcode 39 and it
worked! Obviously it's not the same font.

I'm not sure what font our label printing software is using (though I
intend to try to find it) but I'm confused about why one barcode 39
font is different from another. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Neil

bhsmaths wrote:
Hi Neil,
With the library card routine I use, I wrote a very simple VB code
that
rewrote the data file (from a csv file) so that my field for barcode
was
delimited by asterixs. I also at the same time created a field where
photographs were accessed by their barcode name.jpg. I then loaded
into
excel and resaved as a xls file.
Al S at BHS maths
"fig000" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've been looking at a number of the postings for putting a
barcode
into a mailmerge document. Unlike many of the examples this is not
a
ZIP Code, but just a number.

I've tried a number of things, including creating the barcode in an
envelope mailmerge and moving it (I couldn't get it work in the
evelope
mailmerge :-)).

The most promising thing I've found is that if I type a static
number
with asterisks (like this *1234*) I get a bar code that prints. I'm
doing this by creating merge field, putting in the *1234* and
setting
the font to the IDAutomation.com Code39 that I installed on my
machine.
This gives me a nice bar code printed in the merge document.

What I need to do is do the same with a field from my data source.
I've tried putting asterisks around the merge field (e.g. *merge
field* in the edit field dialog) etc. I've tried putting the \b
switch after the field. I will admit I'm confused. I'm haven't done
a
mail merge in 10 years and I'm not sure of the issues.

Any help would be appreciated.

Neil