I know you don't want to hear this,  but you can't!
 
You can use Excel or Access with a barcode font and do it. or crystal reports.  however until you move to Evo  you will never be able to do it on your own.  This is becasue of the way the RTM editor is written  the database fields are hard coded into the RTM without the links in the document to edit them.  You can not add any new data field that's not aready there.  As a matter of fact,  NEVER delete a database field that is in the RTM or the RTM will never work again!
 
If you upgrade to Evo,  The new RTMs actually can have the data links added, removed and changed around.  However,  Evo uses a different set of RTMs that DBA (DBA begins with BK while EVOs begins with T6)
 
I would highly reccomend moveing to Evo anyway since you will get what you want plus a lot more you didn't know you needed!  i.e. Drill down menus, Multi company transfer,  Handheld screens, Calandar grid lookups, Windows compatible scrren, the ability to be in more than one scrren at a time, the ability to completly customixe the menus..........
 
If you really want a custom RTM for DBA,  talk to Lynn.  they have the ability to take the RTM apart and manually rebuild it with almost any information you want.  My two cents is upgrading to Evo will be better, less costly in the long run and quicker.
 
Sorry,
 
Tim

Hello Kevin and Tim,
 
Thanks ever so much for the responses.
 
The only problem with updating to Evo is were currently debating DBANG, and I may not be one to change the minds of the powers that be, but this is a discussion for another topic at another time. At some point I may do a comparison check again, I checked out Evo a while back, liked what I saw, and the head guy is the "if it's not broke, why fix it" type, and our engineers are "we need more accountability, which dba lacks" I think, or something along those lines.
 
Anyways, Kevin, what did you do that form in? I'm sure it's not terribly difficult I have a collect of fonts for barcodes from wasp tech, but i'll check out the font you mentioned. I'm guessing you made a field and just edited the RTM raw in a text editor or something? If it's that easy I can probably figure it out. I'll have to experiment more next week.
 
Thanks for your help guys, might see more of me in the coming months, really trying to get is in happy happy fun time mode, it's quite the learning experience.
 
-a.

Thanks Kevin, That makes sense. I think "MOST" of the fields on these shipping lists are fixed length, so hopefully adding a fixed * will work.
 
Wish me luck. Too bad you can't just right align the barcode field, then adding a * would be easy.
 
Thanks for the advice of moving to the first tab before saving.
 
-A.