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.Conceptual Differences Between WordBasic and Visual Basic, 07/11/2006, Microsoft Docs Archived
Example code The following code snippets show the difference between WordBasic and VBA with a "Hello, World!" example:Converting WordBasic Macros to Visual Basic, 07/11/2006, Microsoft Docs Archived
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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