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WordBASIC

Field	Value
year
developer	Microsoft
influenced_by	QuickBASIC
operating_system	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
license	Commercial proprietary software

WordBASIC was a subset of Microsoft QuickBASIC customized for word-processing in Microsoft Word. It was replaced by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) when Word 97 was released. Contrarily to VBA, WordBasic was not object-oriented but consisted of a flat list of approximately 900 commands.

Example code

The following code snippets show the difference between WordBasic and VBA with a "Hello, World!" example:

WordBasic:

Sub MAIN
  FormatFont .Name = "Arial", .Points = 10
  Insert "Hello, World!"
End Sub

VBA:

Public Sub Main()
    With Selection.Font
        .Name = "Arial"
        .Size = 10
    End With
    Selection.TypeText Text:="Hello, World!"
End Sub

References

(1997). "Microsoft Word 97 Visual Basic Step by Step". Microsoft Press.
[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa211963%28v=office.11%29.aspx Conceptual Differences Between WordBasic and Visual Basic], 07/11/2006, Microsoft Docs [https://web.archive.org/web/20181201005818/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/office-2003/aa211963(v=office.11) Archived]
[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa211926%28v=office.11%29.aspx Converting WordBasic Macros to Visual Basic], 07/11/2006, Microsoft Docs [https://web.archive.org/web/20181201005937/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/office-2003/aa211926(v=office.11) Archived]

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