Looks like the issue is Word. If I try Excel, it works. Too bad - there are downloadable templates for common peel and stick labels for Word. Guess I'll have to build my own.

If you are playing with this, you might want to try this font too: /http://www.idautomation.com/free-bar...s/code39-font/
It's 1/2" high and puts the human readable text underneath, which saves typing the information twice. This one and the one in a previous post have different start / end characters so a bit of experimenting and wasted paper is required to get going.