how do i insert a bar code (Zip) on envelope Word 2007?

[Guest]

I can't find a way to insert a bar code *(Zip) on an envelope in Word 2007.
Did they leave that out?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Stanley,

The POSTNET barcode field support, introduced in Word v6, was outdated and MS dropped it from Word 2007.

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I can't find a way to insert a bar code *(Zip) on an envelope in Word 2007. d they leave that out?>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Guest]

Here's one way to insert zip codes in your documents: I used an AutoText
mergefield in Word 2000 that still works in Word 2007. The mergefield code
is: { BARCODE \u "type zip code here" \* MERGEFORMAT }. I called it
ZIPBARCODE. Whenever I want to use it, I type ZIP and then F3 to drop the
code into my document/envelope. SHIFT+F9 opens the code and I replace "type
zip code here" with the pertinent ZIPcode, then press SHIFT-F9 again to close
the code. As I say, it still works in Word 2007.
Cyndie Browning
Software Support Specialist
GableGotwals

 

[Jay Freedman]

And as we've explained in several threads in the last few weeks, the reason
you have to go to these lengths is that Microsoft deliberately removed the
barcode settings from several dialogs. They did that because the Post Office
no longer uses the kind of PostNet barcode that the Word field inserts.
Using Word to put barcodes on your mailings may be worse than useless,
because the Post Office will have to cover them and substitute the correct
ones.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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