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WordBASIC
Influenced by
Developer	Microsoft
First appeared	1989; 36 years ago (1989)
OS	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
License	Commercial proprietary software
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.^[1] Contrarily to VBA, WordBasic was not object-oriented but consisted of a flat list of approximately 900 commands.^[2]

Example code

The following code snippets show the difference between WordBasic and VBA with a "Hello, World!" example:^[3]

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

^ Halvorson, Michael; Kinata, Chris (1997). Microsoft Word 97 Visual Basic Step by Step. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press. ISBN 1-57231-388-9.
^ 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

Dialects of the BASIC programming language (list)

Classic

Microsoft	Microsoft BASIC TRS-80 BASICs (Level I, Level II/III) Thomson BASIC 1.0
Texas Instruments	TI-BASIC (calculators) TI Extended BASIC (aka XBasic) TI-BASIC 83
Hewlett-Packard	HP Time-Shared BASIC Rocky Mountain BASIC HP Basic
Locomotive Software	Locomotive BASIC Mallard BASIC
Microcomputers	Atom BASIC Integer BASIC North Star BASIC SCELBAL
Minicomputers	BASIC-11 Business Basic (B32, Data General) Data General Extended BASIC Southampton BASIC System Wang BASIC
Time-sharing computers	BASIC-PLUS Extra! Basic Macro Language VSI BASIC for OpenVMS SUPER BASIC CALL/360:BASIC
Other	AlphaBasic Astro BASIC BASICODE BAL Casio BASIC CBASIC PBASIC SDS BASIC Tiny BASIC UBASIC ZBasic ETBASIC [zh]
Extenders	BASIC 8 Graphics BASIC Simons' BASIC Super Expander Super Expander 64 YS MegaBasic

Procedure-
oriented

Proprietary	AmigaBASIC AMOS BASIC ASIC BasicX Beta BASIC FutureBASIC GRASS Liberty BASIC LSE MapBasic Mobile BASIC OWBasic PowerBASIC PureBasic SmileBASIC Tiger-BASIC True BASIC Turbo Basic WordBASIC
Free and open source	Basic-256 Basic4GL BBC BASIC V DarkBASIC Euphoria Indic BASIC Open Programming Language SdlBasic SmallBASIC QB64 wxBasic XBasic Xblite Yabasic

With object
extensions

Proprietary

AutoIt
Chipmunk Basic
GLBasic
LotusScript
Morfik
PowerBASIC
ProvideX
Run BASIC
VBA
VBScript
VB 5 for Microsoft Excel 5.0
- VSTO
- VSTA
Embedded Visual Basic
WinWrap Basic

Free and
open source

RAD
designers

Proprietary	CA-Realizer Visual Basic (classic) NS Basic RapidQ Visual Basic .NET (Mercury) Xojo
Free and open source	B4X (Basic4android, Basic4ppc) Gambas WinFBE, Visual FB Editor

Defunct

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