Invalid Barcodes

[Sharon]

I cannot for the life of me figure out why Word is putting
in a Delivery Point Bar Code of 99 on all addresses. They
are good addresses (at least they look fine to me) and I
have tried many, many different Barcode fields. Please
help as I do not pass the "wonderful, magic" new Merlin
Postal machine!!

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Sharon,

I cannot for the life of me figure out why Word is putting
in a Delivery Point Bar Code of 99 on all addresses. They
are good addresses (at least they look fine to me) and I
have tried many, many different Barcode fields.

1) Version of Word?
2) Does your address contain a street address as well as a
zipcode?
3) Did you include both when setting up the barcode?
4) Did you let Word create the barcode, or did you try to set
it up on your own?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Sharon]

Thank you for the response Cindy.

I finally figured out what was going on. I had the
mergefield address and mergefield zip on the same line.
As soon as I seperated them it worked fine. It was a total
fluke that I discovered this, but I got my mailing out and
it passed Merlin with a 100%.

Thank you,

Sharon