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vote I found Sbastien Ferry's comment to be the working solution for your question. It's a
pure VBA 1D/2D code generator created by Jiri Gabriel under MIT License in 2013.
I had to do some modification and translation of some of the comments to understand
how it works.
To use it in a worksheet, just copy or import barcody.bas into your VBA in a module
from Google code. In a worksheet, just put in the function like this:
=EncodeBarcode(CELL("SHEET"),CELL("ADDRESS"),A2,51,1,0,2)

The usage is as follows:

1. Leave the CELL("SHEET) and CELL("ADDRESS") as they are since it's just
giving reference to the worksheet and cell address you have the formula
o

A2 is the cell that you have your string to be encoded. In my case it's
cell A2 You can pass "Text" with quotes to do the same. Having the cell
makes it more dynamic

51 is the option for QR Code. Other options are

1=EAN8/13/UPCA/UPCE, 2=two of five interleaved, 3=Code39,
50=Data Matrix, 51=QRCode

1 is for graphical mode. The barcode is drawn on a Shape

object. 0 for font mode. I assume you need to have the font type
installed. Not as useful.

0 is the parameter for the particular barcode type. For

QR_Code, 0=Low Error Correction, 1=Medium Error
Correction, 2=Quartile error correction, 3=high error correction.

2 only applies to 1D codes. It's the buffer zones. I'm not certain
what it does exactly but probably something to do with the 1D
bar spaces?

The code could be modified more to make it a pure VBA function call rather than
using it as a formula in a worksheet. You can add the following code to the end of the
barcody.bas
Public Sub RenderQRCode(workSheetName As String, cellLocation As
String, textValue As String)
Dim s_param As String
Dim s_encoded As String
Dim xSheet As Worksheet
Dim QRShapeName As String
Dim QRLabelName As String
s_param = "mode=Q"
s_encoded = qr_gen(textValue, s_param)
Call DrawQRCode(s_encoded, workSheetName, cellLocation)

Set xSheet = Worksheets(workSheetName)

QRShapeName = "BC" & "$" & Left(cellLocation, 1) _
& "$" & Right(cellLocation, Len(cellLocation) - 1) & "#GR"
QRLabelName = QRShapeName & "_Label"
With xSheet.Shapes(QRShapeName)
.Width = 30
.Height = 30
End With
On Error Resume Next
If Not (xSheet.Shapes(QRLabelName) Is Nothing) Then
xSheet.Shapes(QRLabelName).Delete
End If
xSheet.Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
xSheet.Shapes(QRShapeName).Left+35, _
xSheet.Shapes(QRShapeName).Top, _
Len(textValue) * 6, 30) _
.Name = QRLabelName
With xSheet.Shapes(QRLabelName)
.Line.Visible = msoFalse
.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Name = "Arial"
.TextFrame2.TextRange.Font.Size = 9
.TextFrame.Characters.Text = textValue
.TextFrame2.VerticalAnchor = msoAnchorMiddle
End With
End Sub
Sub DrawQRCode(xBC As String, workSheetName As String, rangeName As
String, Optional xNam As String)
Dim xShape As Shape, xBkgr As Shape
Dim xSheet As Worksheet
Dim xRange As Range, xCell As Range
Dim xAddr As String
Dim xPosOldX As Double, xPosOldY As Double
Dim xSizeOldW As Double, xSizeOldH As Double
Dim x, y, m, dm, a As Double
Dim b%, n%, w%, p$, s$, h%, g%
Set xSheet = Worksheets(workSheetName)
Set xRange = Worksheets(workSheetName).Range(rangeName)
xAddr = xRange.Address
xPosOldX = xRange.Left
xPosOldY = xRange.Top
xSizeOldW = 0
xSizeOldH = 0
s = "BC" & xAddr & "#GR"
x = 0#
y = 0#
m = 2.5
dm = m * 2#
a = 0#
p = Trim(xBC)
b = Len(p)
For n = 1 To b

w = AscL(Mid(p, n, 1)) Mod 256

If (w >= 97 And w <= 112) Then
a = a + dm
ElseIf w = 10 Or n = b Then
If x < a Then x = a
y = y + dm
a = 0#
End If
Next n
If x <= 0# Then Exit Sub
On Error Resume Next
Set xShape = xSheet.Shapes(s)
On Error GoTo 0
If Not (xShape Is Nothing) Then
xPosOldX = xShape.Left
xPosOldY = xShape.Top
xSizeOldW = xShape.Width
xSizeOldH = xShape.Height
xShape.Delete
End If
On Error Resume Next
xSheet.Shapes("BC" & xAddr & "#BK").Delete
On Error GoTo 0
Set xBkgr = xSheet.Shapes.AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, 0, 0, x, y)
xBkgr.Line.Visible = msoFalse
xBkgr.Line.Weight = 0#
xBkgr.Line.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 255, 255)
xBkgr.Fill.Solid
xBkgr.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 255, 255)
xBkgr.Name = "BC" & xAddr & "#BK"
Set xShape = Nothing
x = 0#
y = 0#
g = 0
For n = 1 To b
w = AscL(Mid(p, n, 1)) Mod 256
If w = 10 Then
y = y + dm
x = 0#
ElseIf (w >= 97 And w <= 112) Then
w = w - 97
With xSheet.Shapes
Select Case w
Case 1: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y, m, m):
GoSub fmtxshape
Case 2: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x + m, y, m,
m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 3: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y, dm,
m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 4: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y + m, m,
m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 5: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y, m,
dm): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 6: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x + m, y, m,
m): GoSub fmtxshape
Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y + m, m,
m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 7: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y, dm,
m): GoSub fmtxshape
Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y + m, m,
m): GoSub fmtxshape

Case 8: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x + m, y +

m, m, m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 9: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y, m, m):
GoSub fmtxshape
Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x + m, y +
m, m, m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 10: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x + m, y,
m, dm): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 11: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y, dm,
m): GoSub fmtxshape
Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x + m, y +
m, m, m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 12: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y + m,
dm, m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 13: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y, m,
m): GoSub fmtxshape
Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y + m,
dm, m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 14: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x + m, y,
m, m): GoSub fmtxshape
Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y + m,
dm, m): GoSub fmtxshape
Case 15: Set xShape = .AddShape(msoShapeRectangle, x, y, dm,
dm): GoSub fmtxshape
End Select
End With
x = x + dm
End If
Next n
On Error Resume Next
Set xShape = xSheet.Shapes(s)
On Error GoTo 0
If Not (xShape Is Nothing) Then
xShape.Left = xPosOldX
xShape.Top = xPosOldY
If xSizeOldW > 0 Then
xShape.Width = xSizeOldW
xShape.Height = xSizeOldH
End If
Else
If Not (xBkgr Is Nothing) Then xBkgr.Delete
End If
Exit Sub
fmtxshape:
xShape.Line.Visible = msoFalse
xShape.Line.Weight = 0#
xShape.Fill.Solid
xShape.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 0)
g = g + 1
xShape.Name = "BC" & xAddr & "#BR" & g
If g = 1 Then
xSheet.Shapes.Range(Array(xBkgr.Name, xShape.Name)).Group.Name =
s
Else
xSheet.Shapes.Range(Array(s, xShape.Name)).Group.Name = s
End If
Return
End Sub

With the modification, you can now simply call to render QRCode by calling this in
VBA:
Call modQR.RenderQRCode("Sheet1", "A13", "QR Value")

Just input the worksheet name, cell location, and the QR_value. The QR shape will get
drawn at the location you specified.
You can play around with this section of the code to change the size of the QR
With xSheet.Shapes(QRShapeName)
.Width = 30 'change your size
.Height = 30 'change your size
End With

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