WordBASIC
Developer | Microsoft |
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First appeared | 1989; 35 years ago (1989) |
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
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