smartcodecomponent allows you to easily add professional quality bar codes to windows documents like those from word and excel. it is extremely powerful, utilizing the same engine as smartcodestudio, the industry leading and award-winning label design / barcode software. smartcodecomponent will work flawlessly with any windows application that supports ole (object linking and embedding) server. this includes most microsoft office products, wordpad and many third-party softwares. simply insert smartcodecomponent into your application and select a few bar code properties, such as bar code height, bar width, barcode type and bar code orientation. your desired bar codes will be generated automatically. smartcodecomponent exposes a full range of barcode properties and allows precise control over barcode dimensions. the font for the human readable text is customizable, and support for various barstyles allow the text to be placed on top or below a barcode symbol. the text can also be left-aligned, centered, or justified. there is also automatic data validation on input data to ensure the generated barcode meet industry specifications.