AppleScript Tutorial for Microsoft Excel for Mac using Universal Fonts

1. Open the Excel Example or new Excel spreadsheet.
2. In Column A, enter test data for rows A1, A2 and A3. In the example, rows 1 through 3 of Column A already contain data.
3. Save the Excel file.
4. Open the AppleScript Editor and spreadsheet that will be used. (Ex: AppleScript_Excel_Example.xls)
5. Paste the code below into the AppleScript file. If the sample script file is being used, the code has already been placed in the script. Make sure that only one Excel worksheet is running.
   
   NOTE: AppleScript_Excel_Example.xls is a working example using the following code. When using a different spreadsheet, the code will need to be modified to match the column and row set up. 
   
   --Run handler showing communication with Excel
   
   on run
   
   tell application "Microsoft Excel"
   tell sheet "Sheet1" of workbook 1
              
   set EndofRow to 3 -- This defines the last Excel Row with data; it this example, it is A3.
              
   set input_data to ""
              
   repeat with i from 1 to EndofRow -- This loop will run from row 1 until EndofRow set above. For this example, it was set to 3.
                  
   set InputCell to the value of (cell i of range ("A1:A" & i)) -- This line defines the range, where in this example it is set A1:A3 and i is the counter and will continue to loop until EndofRow.
   set input_data to InputCell
   set encoded_data to IDAutomation_Uni_C128b(input_data) of me
                  
   set EncodedCell to ("B" & i) -- This is where to designate where the encoded data is to appear. In this example, the encoded data will be in Column "B".
   set value of cell EncodedCell to encoded_data
   end repeat
              
   end tell
   end tell
      
   end run
   
   
   --End of Excel Code
   
   
6. Save the changes, then compile and run the script. The Excel spreadsheet now contains encoded data in cells B1 through B3 on the example spreadsheet. set EncodedCell to ("B" & i) ensures that the encoded data is sent from the script directly to Column B.  To send the data to another column, simply enter the Column letter.
7. Change the font of the formula field to the IDAutomation Universal Font and set the point size. This is a very important step; if this is not done, barcodes will not be displayed. If unsure of the point size, IDAutomation recommends 12 points.
8. Print and scan the barcode(s) to verify the correct data is encoded. If a scanner is needed to verify barcodes, IDAutomation offers many USB Barcode Scanners.

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