How to Add Barcode Font in Excel (Installation and Application)

What Are Excel Barcode Fonts?

Generally, barcodes look like black bars and white spaces and store machine-readable information.

Different Barcode Fonts

Code 128
Code 39
UPC-E
QR
Postnet
UPC/ EAN
I2of5
Intelligent Mail

If you want to create a barcode in Excel, you need to ensure that you have the proper barcode fonts. These will not be included by default.

Step 1 – Downloading a Suitable Barcode Font Package

The internet is full of websites that sell and distribute barcode font software, both free and paid options. One of the highly recommended ones is 3 of 9 Barcode TrueType.

Go to the website you trust and follow the download instructions.

Step 2 – Running the Setup File and Installing

Double-click the setup file included in the download package to run it.
A 3 of 9 Barcode (True Type) dialog box will appear.

Click on the Install button to install the font.

Step 3 – Inserting the Barcode Font in Excel

Create an empty table in Microsoft Excel.

Data types are generally general by default. Excel implicitly converts the data based on your input. Excel will implicitly convert general data to float if you enter float data.
You should manually assign the column data type as text since this helps you create barcodes.