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    Using a barcode with Excel

    Hello there,
    I work in a Marine science lab. We have thousands of samples inputed into an excel spreadsheet. We are looking to somehow use a barcode scanner to scan a barcode on the outside of a bucket containing 30+ samples, and time stamp that those samples in that bucket were checked at that date.

    If you could please help me figure out how to set this up, what I must buy, etc, it would be much appreciated!

    Cheers!

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    Re: Using a barcode with Excel

    A keyboard wedge bar-code reader acts just like a keyboard and would be a good choice.

    Once the bar-code has been entered into the selected cell, an event drive macro could then look up the appropriate rows and insert the current date time using the Now() function.
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    Re: Using a barcode with Excel

    If you have one of those scanner guns you just plug it into the computer and you can scan the barcode number to a cell in excel.
    then you can have a simple macro to record the time that it was scanned and any other similar information you need.

    As far as I can tell it is pretty straightforward we don't need to install anything on our computers before using our guns as far as i know.

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