Adding Special Characters

You can use the Insert Symbols or Special Characters dialog to add special characters, including many that are not available on standard keyboards, to various properties on the action properties tabs when you specify the value for the selected property. This feature is supported for any property for which the Insert Symbol control () is available on the toolbar.

Using Special Characters

The most important reason for using special characters is to encode data into a . Some barcodes have encoding rules that require special characters. The Data Matrix barcode, for example, separates data into groups by using the Group Separator (GS) special character. There is no keyboard equivalent for this character; you must add it by using the Insert Symbols or Special Characters dialog in BarTender.

Special characters are also used to insert a newline. A newline is a character or characters that are used as a line break, such as the carriage return (CR) or line feed (LF) characters.

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