QR Code

Generate QRCode in MS Excel

1. Right click command prompt and run command prompt as administrator.
QR Code command prompt as administrator

Type in the following commands to register cruflbcs.dll
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Barcodesoft\FontUtil" regsvr32.exe cruflbcs.dll register cruflbcs.dll commands for QR code

To register 64-bit DLL, please type in the following commands
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Barcodesoft\FontUtil" %systemroot%\System32\regsvr32.exe cruflbcs_x64.dll

If you see the following Window pop up, your registration was successful.
register cruflbcs.dll succeeded

2. Start Microsoft® Excel®.

If you are using Excel 2000 or 2003, click menu ===> Tools ==> Macro ===> Security. Choose Low security level.
QRCode Macro Security

If you are using Excel 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019, click the Microsoft Office Button.
Office 2010 button Office 2016 button Office 2019 button
Then click Excel Options, choose Trust Center. In the Macro Settings category, under Macro Settings, choose "Enable all macros" as shown below.

QRCode Macro Setting

3. Press ALT + F11 to open Microsoft® Visual Basic editor.
QRCode VBA

4. From Visual Basic editor, choose menu Tools ===> References. It will popup a dialog. Click Browse button and choose cruflbcs.dll from your working folder.
Usually it's under C:\Program File (x86)\CommonFiles\Barcodesoft\Fontutil folder.
Click the checkbox beside crUFLBcs 4.0 Type Library as shown below. Then click OK button.

QRCode add reference

5. Press Ctrl+M, it will popup a dialog, choose barcodesoft.bas under C:\Program File (x86)\CommonFiles\Barcodesoft\Fontutil folder. Then click "Open".

If you don't find barcodesoft.bas, please download it from QRCode.
QRCode import vba

6. Close Visual Basic and go back to your spreadsheet. Now, you can use the following macro to encode data: qrcode. When you have lots of data to process, you can just copy and paste the QRCode macro to the whole column / row of data. All your QRCode will be ready immediately.

=qrcode(xxx)

Please use cell reference to replace xxx in the formulas as shown below.
QRCode Excel macro

7. Right click Cell B1, choose Format Cell from context menu as shown below.

8. Click Font tab and choose BcsQRCodeS as font typeface as shown below.
QRCode typeface excel

9. Click Alignment tab and select "wrap text" as shown below.
QRCode alignment excel

10. Click OK and you should be able to see QRCode barcode in your Excel spreadsheet now. There might be a small gap between different lines of QRCode. However, this won't be an issue when you scan the printed QRCode because bcsDatamatrixS true type font is designed to reduce this gap to mininum.
QRCode excel