I believe that if you set your location (under control panel) to the USA, it
will become available.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Dorsalmallard" wrote in message
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I live in Canada and use Office XP. The FIM-A barcode option is not
available
in MS Word when I go to make an envelope and I am looking for a way to get
it
to work on my computer so I can barcode the mail I send to the U.S.