BarTender Training Videos
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If you don’t see the topic you are looking for among the videos listed below, please visit our FAQ web page for written answers to a larger number of frequently asked questions. There are also numerous technical white papers available.

Getting Started

An Introduction to BarTender's Label Designer

Sit back, relax, and see how easy label design can be.

Introduction to the Companion Applications

An overview of the Companion Applications for BarTender.

Setting up your Blank Labels

Using "Page Setup" to configure BarTender for your label stock

General Topics

Removing the Use of Trial Features

How to "clean" your label designs so that they no longer try to access features only found in higher editions of BarTender than you are using.

Exporting Label Images

How to export part or all of your BarTender label as a graphic.

Specifying Data for your Labels

Reading Label Data from a Database or Excel Spreadsheet

How to connect to an external database or spreadsheet and use the data in your label objects.

Creating Print-Time User Prompts

Designing dialogs that "pop-up" at print time and request user input.

Selecting Records from a Database at Print Time

Manually selecting records and completing queries at print time.

The BarTender System Database

Setting Up a System Database

Creating and configuring a BarTender System Database. (The optional System Database is required by BarTender and the Companion Applications for logging, auditing, security management, and advanced document control. It is not used for storing live label data.)

Configuring Permissions to the System Database

Using SQL Management Studio to properly configure user permissions for access to the BarTender System Database.