Bar Code

[Guest]

how to generat a bar code from numeric field ?

 

[Jeff Boyce]

One approach is to use a font that "prints" bar code.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

 

[John Vinson]

how to generat a bar code from numeric field ?

Obtain or purchase a bar-code Font (using your preferred barcode
format, there are many).

It's not builtin to Access or to Windows; you need the specific font.

John W. Vinson[MVP]

 

[Terry Kreft]

There is more to printing a barcode than jut buying a font.

Barode are encoded so you hav to know how to convert the data you hav to the
encoded format the barcode requires, you thn need to convert the encoded
data to the barcode characters.

Th most important thing you need to know to start with is which barcode you
are going to use. Once you know that you can thn check your options on how
to produce that barcode.