Bjorn's Barcode Studio
Easy barcode and QR-code printing
- an Excel add-in -
Known MS Office issues
If the MS Office add-in doesn't load properly, close the add-in and try again.
If the dropdown at the top of the add-in sidebar is empty, select the 'Home' option.
Sometime the add-in runtime (code by MS) does not load completly and you get an error dialog, close the add-in sidebar and try again.
Intro
Quickly print QR and barcodes from spreadsheet data.
NEWS! - new bindable checkbox elements
Nov 2024 - app now supports bindable checkbox elements. The state of a checkbox can be can be bound to a data column in your merge data source.
- Values turning on a checkbox: true; yes; on; any number other than 0.
- Values turning off a checkbox: false; no; off; 0.
- Values setting the checkbox unset or intermediate state: null, undefined, notset, not-set.
See this Sheet for a sample data sheet using a column with checkbox states.
Checkboxes have quite a few formatting properties, see video for a demo of some of them. Worth noting is that you can use different fill colors for the three different states - perhaps useful as indicators on a badge?
A new checkbox palette has been added to the sidebars.
Make sure to checkout the video below.
NEWS! - individual images for each label
Oct 2024 (4) - merge data and design and create individual images for each label.
Save images to a local file system folder or upload to Google Drive or Google Photos.
NEWS! - auto-adjust font size for placeholders
Oct 2024 (2) - Auto-adjust font sizes: when turned on the app will decrease the font size of a placeholder until the text fits on one line in the generated labels.
NEWS! - multi-column placeholder UI
Oct 2024 (1) - App has a new UI to make it more obvious how to create placeholders that fetch data from more than one data column - the "insert multi-column placeholder" dialog.
NEWS! - quick print labels for temp data
Sep 3 2023. App has a new feature to print labels for a temp row of data. Assume you have created a great label design and you just want to re-use it from time to time to print a sheet of labels for some new data, then this is a feature for you. Open your great design and use the "Print a temp row..." option in the main toolbar. This option will open a UX in which you can quickly enter data for all data columns used in the design and then print using the current design. Watch video below.
NEWS! - 'print selected row' feature'
Sep 2023 - App has a new nifty feature (requested by customers) that allows you to generate multiple labels for a selected row of data.
You find the feature in the Data dropdown and in the on-hover menu to the left of a row in the Data tab.
NEWS! - templates
June 2023 - you can now use template files to save or load commonly used designs.
A template specifies the selected sheet definition and the label design but no data.
You an apply a template when you create a new project or later.
You can save any project as a template for future use.
Applying a template on a project replaces the selected sheet definition as well as the current label design.
Note: you will have to re-assign columns to items in the design if the columns used in the template don't match the columns used in the current design.
You assign columns using the 'Assign column...' in the right mouse button menu, aka. the context menu.
This short video shows how to apply a template as well as how to create a new one.
Templates are stored on your local hard drive with the .barcodetemplate extension.
NEWS! - formatting columns
May 2019 - you can now use formatting columns to custom format some barcode labels.
A column named 'Color' sets the color for each field in a label.
A column named '[datacolumn] Color' sets the color for the field [datacolumn], e.g. if you have a data column 'FirstName', use a column with header 'FirstName Color' to set the color.
You can use CSS color names or CSS #RRRGGBB color values - read more here: w3school.com
In addition to Color you can use FontSize columns to set label specific font sizes.
More
Check out this short YouTube video.
Check out screenshots and install from the Google web store.
Other platforms
Check out these other versions for other platforms.
See also
You might also be interested in these other apps or add-ons.
Bjorn's Label Studio - an Excel add-in
Easy label and badge design
Bjorn's Bulk Mail'n'more - a web app
Nextgen bulk mail and email blasts, and more. Mail merge evolved!
Advanced text layout and editing
Bjorn's Barcode Studio - a web app
Design and print QR and barcodes from spreadsheet data
Bjorn's Label Studio - a web app
Design and print labels and badges
Pricing
This add-in is in the TIER-1, a TIER-1 subscription costs $8.95 per month.
You can try the add-in for 7 days for free.
Note that a TIER-1 subscription covers all TIER-1 products.
There is a 5-user subscription with a great discount, $29.95 per month.
Use Bjorn's Account Manager to buy/manage your subscription.
Use your PayPal account to cancel your subscription.
Internet Explorer issues
This app is using modern features in Javascript that is not supported by the old Internet Explorer browser - the add-in won't work in older versions of MS Office using Internet Explorer. Sorry...
Support
Please report bugs here or reach out 2 me with questions @ support@backlund.org.
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