You have at least two options:

Since bar codes can look like really big integers they can be manually
entered by starting them with an apostrophy.

For bar codes in their native form check out:

http://www.barcodesinc.com/free-barcode-font/

or

http://www.barcode-1.net/
--
Gary''s Student


"basinghughes" wrote:

I would like to know if you can:
Read a bar code into an excel cell as a number?
Read a bar code into an excel cell as a bar code?

How easy is it to achieve?
What do I need to purchase in order to make this work?

I have Microsoft Office Professional 2003