Steve:

Font size 9 is pretty small. Try bumping it up to about 20.

Just curious, why are you displaying a bar code font into a textbox?

--Paul


>I am trying to display a bar code in a textbox on my form. A bar code is being displayed, but it is more like a solid black line that is about FontSize 9 tall and X number of characters wide.
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>In the textbox properties I set FontName property to barcod39 which I have in my Windows true type font folder. The textbox has as its control source a table field that is Char 8. An 8 digit number in the table should show on my form as a bar code that represents the 8-digit number.
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>Thanks for the info.
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