Being the diehard Luddite that I am, I have continued to use Microsoft Word 2003 even though I have Office Pro 2016 on my computer, because I can't find anything in Microsoft's execrable ribbon style menu system. Consequently, I have just discovered what many of you probably already know: Since Word 2007, the envelope printing routine no longer allows including a postal bar code in the recipent's address on the envelope.
So I've been looking for a way to bring back that utility. So far, all I have found is commercial add-ins that offer to generate 2,387 differrnt types and styles of barcode that I've never heard of, and that all cost north of $100 for a single user, single computer license. Considering that I have three desktop computers, four notebook computers, and two tablets (yeah, it's only me here ... it's a long story), that means I would need a group license. Now the price is up to $500 to $1,500. I can't afford that.
Does anyone know of a decent freeware add-in that will handle this? As an alternate, there is apparently some uber-secret barcode field thingie built into Word, but thanks to Microsoft's typically dense and obscure "support" forum entries I can't figure out if this even works to pop a bar code into a single envelope that I'm printing to mail a single letter.
Can anyone help?