Developer Microsoft | First appeared 1989 | |
OS Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X License Commercial proprietary software | ||
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.
Example code
The following code snippets show the difference between WordBasic and VBA with a "Hello world!" example:
WordBasic:
VBA:
References
WordBASIC Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA