WordBASIC

WordBASIC was a subset of Microsoft QuickBASIC customized for word-processing. 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.[1]

WordBASIC
DeveloperMicrosoft
First appeared1989 (1989)
OSMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS X
LicenseCommercial proprietary software
Influenced by
QuickBASIC

Example code

The following code snippets show the difference between WordBasic and VBA with a "Hello, World!" example:[2]

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
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References
  1. Conceptual Differences Between WordBasic and Visual Basic, 07/11/2006, Microsoft Docs Archived
  2. Converting WordBasic Macros to Visual Basic, 07/11/2006, Microsoft Docs Archived
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