How to create barcodes in Excel [for all versions]

[@Spreadsheeto]

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[@floresd77]

Hello there Mr. Spreadsheeto and to all that are reading this. I need some help on how to create barcodes for each employee.. So basically we are using SCLogic Scan Software which we use to Scan and track our incoming and outgoing mail. Our coworker made one for each employee and worked but he is no longer with the company. I would like to do the same to make it a faster process when receive incoming delivers and outgoing mail so we don't have to walk up to the laptop and type in our username and password as we have to log off each time. Also would this work if I put in all the information of each employee with their username and password using this method?? Sorry all new to this.. Thank You All.....👋

[@soran4715]

How to be print one by one ??

[@mechelmiller2937]

Hey there. I don't understand what I am doing wrong here. I followed your instruction to a T but I am getting an error message

[@gummansgubbe6225]

3 minutes and 40 seconds of pure gold.

[@oReL9200]

Thanks a lot, very helpful and easy to do!

[@apsesparrago9516]

Super basic & easy to understand. Love it! Looking forward for more tutorials💕 thank you! always keep safe

[@Spreadsheeto]

I'm glad you like it :) Thanks for watching.

[@MyVoiceLibrary]

Thank you sir it really helps

[@anandnachaya9829]

Brilliant - easy to follow and got the job done

[@splendour3951]

Thanks it’s very detailed. I want to learn how to create my unique barcodes

[@TheModularDiver]

When I enter the ="("&....its not converting the numbers over (@2:30mark) Can anyone help?

[@janadyck4037]

same problem

[@nmap-p-]

Who is here from the ticketmaster breach? 👀

[@yakshkothari2309]

VERY HELPFUL, DETAILED AND CRISP VIDEO THANKYOU!

[@katiebm920]

Just an FYI you are my hero Thank you for this video

[@melissaeldridge2428]

This was so incredibly useful! Thank you so much!

[@KoechGerald-s3q]

Can I find one for generating barcodes for driving license?

[@ShukuratAdebolanle-xo4od]

Very useful but what app did u use to scan it on ur phone

[@devjichawda9091]

Thanks for link & teaching

[@areseses1773]

Great content ❤. I had one question though, how you know what digit or numbere you want to encode to Barcode? How do you do it what numbers you want to use !!!

[@Stratelier]

That question is actually 75% of the work. In many practical cases you are dealing with items whose barcode numbers (e.g. a UPC or GTIN) are already defined for you. For example, if you look at the barcode on a soup can you may see something like "0 51000 01251 7" _(

[@shariffabdallah2449]

do you have any idea if it works on Mac os, been trying to get it installed

[@evansjere345]

Nice Video Kasper

[@MuhsinTechnicalengineeringserv]

i have a question that how can i add there product information so that if i scan the barcode, that information is displayed. if i use EAN-128 barcode

[@simonchristensen8403]

Please be more specific in what keys you are pressing. I cannot follow this as I don't know what you are doing half the time, especially at 2:14

[@cjhackeryt]

What is the purpose of bracket and formula. We shouldn't we do a just change in font. Is bracket (formula) is compulsory?

[@Bandrik]

Most barcodes including the Code 39 format shown here have a beginning and ending marker. It helps to tell the barcode reader where a barcode begins and ends, and what direction to read it in if it's upside down. The formula being used is simply to automate adding those "( )" parts, which in the barcode font become the start and end makers. Otherwise you'd have to manually type those in by hand. So a barcode like this (123) When scanned will read as 123

[@MichaelOlogbonjaiye]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You Saved me from a lot of head

[@ginacc4043]

great to found this informative account! question: is the product number the same as a sku number? thanks!

[@yapyh2872]

Does this work on retail POS system? I mean will it be picked up by retail scanner?

[@Stratelier]

Yes, though how the scanner will interpret the code it just read is a different matter. Store I work at, for example, our shelf tags are rendered using ITF (interleaved 2 of 5) with 14 digits, and our markdown labels get printed using Code 128 barcodes (with 20 digits). But, know that several barcode schemas (including UPC) embed a "check digit" somewhere that you WILL need to account for when rendering the barcode, without which the scanner will assume it misread the bars and do nothing.

[@Chuckles_the_Jester]

how would i add a barcoad font on the mobile version of excel?

[@jonnyesse]

Thank you!

[@dayoupkeshupamom]

Thank you so much It saved me a lot 😂😂

[@premsingha6202]

Please share more advanced function and data nmanipulation technique in EXCEL

[@Spreadsheeto]

Thanks for your suggestion! :)

[@3dinnovators]

How to make lowercase letters?

[@nurainiabrahim5922]

Thank you

[@MinguepPita]

The numbers can be whatever I want, is it??

[@ShadeeHassaf]

you are the best . thank you .

[@zizieudastudio9330]

thank you for this video

[@algreen266]

please i purchased bar codes thinking they would come in pictures but insted they gave me numbers? how do i convert the number to a picture? thanks

[@phattai2966]

great video but i don't scan my barcode , can you help me ?

[@Stratelier]

It's too bad the Web version of Excel (aka. Office 365) doesn't strictly support these fonts. I had a nasty usecase where the barcode fonts my file used did render onscreen, but NOT WHEN PRINTING (aka. the whole reason to use a barcode font in the first place). I kludged together an alternative solution in a week (and it works), but it wasn't fun that I _needed_ to do that to begin with.

[@Spreadsheeto]

I agree. I'm glad you found something that works :)

[@Stratelier]

@@Spreadsheeto I said to myself "if it supports Web standards then it must support Unicode" -- it didn't take long (relatively speaking) to find the "box drawing / block elements" Unicode range, build a working transcription of input characters into (a binary version of) their barcodings, then substitute the appropriate Unicode characters to render the barcode stripe by individual stripe. Again, super kludgy and all, but I just needed it to work.

[@soumiamoujane3695]

How do I create a barcode on exel mobile?

[@chandhuruchandhuru6498]

In my Excel we are unable to down load barcode now to add in Excel

[@stephendahl1654]

great stuff it worked :-)

[@letmepilottheevapls]

I cant change the font 😢

[@skywatcher1973]

Did Excel stop allowing this formula? It's not working for me.

[@dandrem.4074]

If I knew where you were right now, I'd hug you.

[@rcsontag]

Barcode fonts may look OK, but they experience printing and reading issues.

[@mawa8597]

taylor would be proud.

[@doursaque]

thanks man! but it does not work, does not scan the barcode generated

[@Stratelier]

Been there personally. There could be two reasons for this: 1 - If the barcode schema includes an error-check digit, failing to include it (and/or getting it wrong) will cause your barcode to not scan, because that's literally the reason error-check digits exist: to prove that the rest of the code was in fact scanned correctly. 2 - You didn't actually format your character string correctly. This requires a little knowledge of the layout for the barcode schema you're using, and the character set of the barcode font you're using. Wikipedia can brief you about the former, while a character-map tool can let you analyze the latter. As an example, I've used a "UPC font" on occasion and while the UPC schema only has about 24 distinct symbols, the font's actual character set contained at least twice as many, organizing them into groups for: - Start/stop code _(which for UPCs is actually the same code, but the font encoded them separately)_ - "Odd parity" digits _(UPC digits are encoded as 7 bits grouped into patterns of 2 stripes + 2 spaces; "odd parity" digits have 3 bits set and 4 bits cleared)_ - "Even parity" digits _(4 bits set, 3 bits cleared; this helps inform whether the barcode is being scanned left-to-right or right-to-left)_ - Centerpoint marker _(the barcode switches from "odd" to "even" parity digits at this point; for this and other reasons, a UPC-A will always have exactly 30 stripes of various widths and spacings)_ - Combined start code + odd-parity digit - Combined even-parity digit + stop code

[@doursaque]

@@Stratelier thank you, I'll try again!

[@Stratelier]

@@doursaque Wow, I was not actually expecting a reply given the age of your prior comment. Anyway: Researching how the barcode is structured is probably the bigger help, but the amount of work involved varies depending on which barcode schema you're trying to use. As for decoding the character set in the font, that's actually easy: just build a 16x8 table with something like =CHAR(16*row+column) in each cell to observe which glyph gets rendered for each input. Another step is starting with a known-scannable barcode and trying to decode/decipher it manually -- this will help alert you to the existence of any "metadata" alongside the actual encoded data. For example, the store I work at uses ITF (interleaved 2 of 5) type barcodes for scannable shelf tags, but we also have specialized markdown stickers which use Code 128 type barcodes. Notably, the latter encodes 20 numeric digits but if you decipher the bars by hand it turns out there are actually just _10_ encoded data values (each value representing two digits) and _two_ metadata values (specific to Code 128).

[@chandhuruchandhuru6498]

Hi Sir good afternoon

[@christopherduncan8441]

doesnt work

[@uberdump]

Thumbs up if you are also creating your new Taylor Swift concert tickets.

[@uberdump]

@@KingKIK0 haha, good try Swifty’s lawyers.

[@naeemahmmed]

@spreadsheeto Thank you so much

[@TuanLVT]

For me if I add 3600567 it shows on the barcode as 536005676. It adds 5 and 6😔

[@gummansgubbe6225]

You should try it without the "(" in the beginning (and the end?). Looking at the first image of the video you can see some heading lines. It bet those are the "(".

[@Stratelier]

Certain barcode schemas actually require a bit of "metadata" to be encoded beyond the actual data itself. Code 128, for example, defines 3 subsets (aka. 3 ways to interpret the same pattern of stripes) so its "start code" must necessarily tell it which subset to refer to. Similarly, there may be an error-checking digit added to the barcode, which is not necessarily counted as part of the data encoded.

[@TuanLVT]

@@gummansgubbe6225 doesnt work :/

[@TuanLVT]

@@Stratelier i heard excel needs some kind of macro to make barcode to really work with scanner readers

[@Stratelier]

@@TuanLVT Macros automate parts of the process, yes. But depending on the barcode schema it can be technically possible to do it all yourself ... it's just a bit of work. For example, I built a series of formulas to render UPC-A barcodes _stripe by individual stripe_ and the results actually do work with barcode scanners (which was indeed the point of doing it). It doesn't use anything beyond ordinary formulas, a monospace font, a few select Unicode characters, and some research on my part for how UPCs are actually encoded/decoded.

[@MuhsinTechnicalengineeringserv]

i have a question that how can i add information to that barcode so as if i scan that barcode, that information is displayed.such as when i use EAN-128