WordBASIC

WordBASIC

Developer	Microsoft
First appeared	1993
OS	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
License	EULA
Influenced by
QuickBASIC

WordBasic (VBA) 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.

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