If you can’t find it there, you most probably need to install it. For example, if we change the ‘0’ in B3 to ‘8’, the data in column C will refresh automatically and a new barcode will be generated based on the changed code.īut before you go ahead to create some barcodes, it might be a good idea to check whether you’ve got the font which converts simple codes into barcodes installed in your computer. This function is dynamic, which means any change in the source code will show on the barcode. What’s left to do is to change the font in the column Barcode to the font ‘IDAutomationHC38M’… and here we go with the barcode – simple, quick and easy! How to Change the Font in the Column Barcode to the Font ‘IDAutomationHC38M Copy the function to the rest of the rows using the bottom right corner. This is our background on which the barcode will be based. Then add an ampersand and right after, the coordinates of the cell that contains the code we’re converting, which is B3 here.Įnter another ampersand and the closing brackets in quotation marks, and hit Enter. Enter the equal sign, a quotation mark, an opening bracket and a quotation mark again. How to Add Brackets to the Existing CodeĬlick into the target cell, the cell where you want to generate the barcode. To make sure the data conversion from a code to the barcode runs smoothly, we’ll need to add brackets to the existing code, but this needs to be done in a special way. How to Format the Column Containing the Codes Properlyįirst, make sure that the column containing the codes is formatted as ‘Text’, which is necessary for the correct display of codes beginning with ‘0’.

Let’s have a look at how to do it using these three examples.

A barcode can be generated in Excel in a pretty straightforward way – based on a code that contains numbers as well as letters.

Barcode font for excel