WordBASIC

WordBASIC
Developer	Microsoft
First appeared	1989; 35 years ago
OS	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
License	Commercial proprietary software
Influenced by
	QuickBASIC

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.^[1]

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

References

^ Conceptual Differences Between WordBasic and Visual Basic, 07/11/2006, Microsoft Docs Archived
^ Converting WordBasic Macros to Visual Basic, 07/11/2006, Microsoft Docs Archived

[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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