Azalea Software, Inc.

Printing Interleaved 2 of 5 Bar Codes in Access

If you are printing Interleaved 2 of 5 bar codes from within an Access project, the easiest thing to do is to use our barcode.dll after you've installed our fonts on your machine.

Extract barcode.dll into your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM or \WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory.

Extract and Save our sample database I2of5sampleinput.mdb in the database window, click "Modules".

You may close this database (remembering its path) and open your own.

Import the Azalea functions. \Open your database; in our example, we’ll use attached I2of5sampleinput.mdb. From the File menu, select Get External/Import.

Give the path to the I2of5sampleinput.mdb sample database. In the "Import Objects" window, click the "Modules" tab, highlight "I2of5" and click "OK".

Query design. Select "Queries".

Double click "Design view". Select the table you wish to print bar codes from. Click "Add" and then "Close".

In the mini window click twice on the field containing your I2of5 input data. Uncheck the "Show" check box (we just want the bar code).

In the Expression Builder left pane, expand "Functions". Expand "I2of5sampleinput"; on the right pane, select "AzaleaI2of5".

Replace "I2of5number" with the name of the input data field (in our example, "I2of5" without the quotes). Click "OK". Save and name your query. Select your entire query field, go to File menu/Format/Fonts and select one of Azalea's I2of5 fonts at given size point.

Run the query. At main database window, double-click on the name of your query.