| Developer | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| First appeared | 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]
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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
This page was last edited on 11 September 2023, at 18:54