How to create a Barcode in Word?

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You lot will see Barcodes on products in the supermarket stores and visitor products. Barcodes are used to interpret data such equally production numbers, batch numbers, and serial numbers. Barcodes assistance manufacturers, retailers, and other industries to track and identify products as they transport through the supply chain.

A Barcode is a pattern of parallel bars or lines containing information that a reckoner can read. In this tutorial, nosotros will explicate the process of how to download the Barcode Font and how to create a Barcode using the downloaded Barcode Font in Microsoft Word.

How to create a Barcode in Word

Downloading the Barcode Font

Offset, we are going to download a Barcode Font.

Open your Web browser and type in the search engine fonts2u.com. Click on the site name, and it will take you to the site'due south domicile folio.

On the site, click Barcode.

After clicking Barcode, scroll downwards; you volition meet different Barcodes you can choose from. Select whatsoever i of your choices. In this tutorial, we choose to download Bar-code 39.

A dialog box volition pop up, click Salve File, and then Ok.

The Barcode is downloaded.

Then open your File Explorer and select the Font Barcode file y'all downloaded.

Now we will extract the file.

Correct-click the file and select Excerpt All to extract the file.

An Extract compressed (Zipped) Folder dialog box will appear; click Extract.

The File is extracted.

Double click the Extracted Folder.

Inside the folder, double click the File.

A dialog box of the Barcode will appear. Inside the box, you volition see the Barcodes. Click Install.

The Barcode Font is installed.

To find the Barcode, become to your Local Disk.

Click Windows folder.

In the Windows folder, select the Font folder.

You will see the Barcode inside the Fonts Folder.

Create a Barcode using a downloaded Barcode Font

Open up Microsoft Give-and-take

In the Word Document, type the data yous want the Barcode to be. In this article, nosotros type "The Windows Club."

Identify an Asterisk symbol at the start and stop of the word, for instance, *the windows Society*.

Now, Highlight the text and become to the Fonts on the Home tab and scroll down until y'all see the Barcode.

Click on the Barcode.

The text will automatically be converted to a Barcode.

To check if the Barcode can exist scanned or not, you can use a Barcode Scanner or a Barcode Scanner App on your smartphone.

Read next: Costless Barcode Reader Scanner software for Windows 10.

Shantel is a university student studying for Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. Her goal is to go a Database Administrator or a System Administrator. She enjoys reading and watching historical documentaries and dramas.