How can I include the postal barcode on envelopes I print?

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I've been using word for years. I occassionally print envelopes including the postal barcode. I haven't figured it out yet in office 2010. I hope that some one can help me. Thanks in advance.

Lee Warren

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As explained in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897290 the POSTNET barcode that Word can create is now obsolete, so it was removed from the Envelope dialog starting in Word 2007.

If you really want to put in a POSTNET barcode, you can go to Insert > Quick Parts > Field and insert a BarCode field (which is how the option in the Envelopes dialog used to do its work). The syntax

of the field code is explained here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/word-help/field-codes-barcode-field-HP005186205.aspx

Jay Freedman

MS Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Hello everyone! I too was very frustrated by this. When I used the "add field" under the quick parts menu in Word 2010 and added "barcode", I would always get "Invalid Zip" as the response. After some investigating, I found the fix: if you go to the USPS website at https://ribbs.usps.gov/onecodesolution/download.cfm and download uspsEncoderMsOffice-1.3.0.zip, you can install it in seconds.

Once you install, all you have to do is the following: I went back to the "mailings" menu, selected "envelopes", then went to the address field and clicked "insert", then clicked "quick parts", selected "bar code" and clicked "is US address" and entered the zip code. This worked perfectly for me in Word 2010.

Hope this helps!!

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Anonymous

The download you want for a 64-bit Windows system running 32-bit Office software is uspsEncoderMsOffice-1.3.1. Looks similar except the MsOffice part.

The solution referenced requires more operator intervention than I would like each time one wishes to insert a bar code on an envelope. Hopefully, that will be a fix in the future.

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Jay Freedman 208.3K Volunteer Moderator

As explained in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897290 the POSTNET barcode that Word can create is now obsolete, so it was removed from the Envelope dialog starting in Word 2007.

If you really want to put in a POSTNET barcode, you can go to Insert > Quick Parts > Field and insert a BarCode field (which is how the option in the Envelopes dialog used to do its work). The syntax

of the field code is explained here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/word-help/field-codes-barcode-field-HP005186205.aspx

Jay Freedman

MS Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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Anonymous

2010-08-29T07:04:08+00:00

Note too that it only works if the Windows Regional settings are set to English US.

Note that you can't use bookmarks if you are using mail merge. You would have to use the field that provided the ZIP.
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Anonymous

2011-02-08T18:55:03+00:00

Sorry guy, but for what we have to pay for MS Office the least Microsoft can do is to update the address barcodes! They claim to be so user friendly...well I for one am beginning to wonder ....friendly to whom? Your explanation may be clear to you but not all of us are programmers, many of us are just ordinary people who need to rely on others to do the grunt work in this subject. I may be an expert in accounting and taxes and can make my way around many software programs but I do not feel I should have to also become expert in programming to do something that should be a simple click!
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