How can I generate a data merge that includes a barcode in excel spreadsheet for InDesign?

Can you please indicate whether the following process is possible in InDesign CS 5.5? (Mac OS 10.8.2).

We need to create a data merge that includes a barcode. The fusion of data concerns several thousand records.

We have a customer supplied Excel spreadsheet that contains seven fields, which is a number which ultimately must print a barcode when we do the data to merge in InDesign.

As you expected, the classic six data fields merge perfectly - but we can't find a way to make the code barcode printed properly within the data merge.

We looked at several possible solutions without success.

Some of the solutions suggest a plug-in for Excel convert the number to a code bar while still in the spreadsheet - but this does not come across properly when import us the CSV file in the InDesign data merge.

We studied some third party software applications, but neither gives the complete solution that we need. Some, for example, seem to create the bar code in the Excel worksheet but do not produce the barcode correctly when us data merge in InDesign; and some we will create a unique bar code in InDesign, but have no automated way to recover thousands of numbers in Excel and turn them into bar codes.

We have you met also possible solutions "police" but have had no success with these either.

Previous employment, only to produce us entrusted to a specialist mailing company, who assured us that they have produced all the work (very quickly) in InDesign. They, understandably, don't tell us how they did it. But, given the speed with which they have produced work for us, we imagine - with the correct software - the whole process is easy to do.

Can you please specify?

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