Excel 2007 - Add barcode images using the ActiveBarcode Application

You can use the ActiveBarcode Application to add barcode images to your Excel documents:

Launch the ActiveBarcode Application. Now create the barcode you require. If you need information of how to use the ActiveBarcode Application click here

After creating the barcode you copy it into the Windows clipboard. To do this select "Copy Bitmap" or "Copy Metafile" from the "Edit" menu (A description of the whole menu is located here):

The barcode will now be copied to the Windows clipboard and is available for nearly any application running on your system.

Now open Excel and create a new sheet or open an already existing one. Select the "Start" tab. Click on the button "Paste" from the range of "Clipboard":

The barcode will be placed into your sheet:

The barcode image is now placed to into your Excel sheet. You can handle this barcode inside your sheet as any other image (e.g. resize, move, etc.).

Hint: The barcode has been added as image to your document. The images resultion has been set by you using the ActiveBarcode Application (Menu "Barcode": Layout & Size). If you create the barcode in a low resolution (e.g. 200x50 pixels) and then print it to a printer with a high resolution the barcodes textline may look like it has a too low resolution and huge blocks are visible. This also happens when you resize the barcode inside your document to get it bigger. To avoid this you must create the barcode in a bigger resolution before you copy the barcode to the Windows clipboard. Then you paste the barcode image to your document and resize it to the required smaller size. Now the resolution of the image is higher and if you print your document the barcode will look much better!