It works!
Thanks to both of you. I should have found this Diss. Grp. a few days ago.


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BarDoomed wrote...
You have gotten me another step forward James, now is there a way to
default
the "*" into the cells and have the data to enter between them? This
asking a
lot isn't it?
....

Your concern is display and printout, so you don't really need the
asterisks in the cells' contents. Since bar codes would be either
positive integers or text, use the custom number format (yes, NUMBER
format)

\*0\*;;;\*@\*

Positive numbers and text will display and print with delimiting
asterisks. Format these cells in barcode font and you should be good to
go.