If It turn off the Paragraph markings the end of cell marker goes away, but I
still have the original problem... Stumped!

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

The character that you describe is the end of cell marker. You can prevent
it being displayed by clicking on the ¶ button on the toolbar. It does not
however print so I am not sure how it would be affecting the barcode
reading.

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"mreinders" wrote in message
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I have an excel spreadsheet that is the data source for a mail merge
letter.
One column contains *XXXXX-XXXX-X* (X being numbers) they are formated
with
Free 3 0f 9 Barcode Font. If I print them from Excel, I can scan and read
the
numbers with a hand held barcode reader. If I merge them to a word
document,
they pic up an additional character that prevents them from being read.
The
Word document is formatted in a table format that has a hidden character
in
it (a circle with four tabs at an X pattern around the edge. Any help
would
be greatly appreciated