WordBASIC

WordBASIC was the programming language used inside Microsoft Word until Word 97. It was a subset of Microsoft QuickBASIC that had been customized for word processing, which made it a language narrowed to serve one application instead of a general purpose tool. When Word 97 was released, WordBASIC was replaced by Visual Basic for Applications. The two differ in design: VBA is object oriented, whereas WordBASIC was not, and consisted of a flat list of approximately 900 commands. Microsoft's own documentation set out the conceptual differences between WordBasic and Visual Basic and explained how to convert WordBasic macros, and a short Hello World program written in both languages is the usual way to compare the old command-list style with the object style of VBA. Its place in the history of the BASIC family is as a bridge from QuickBASIC to the Visual Basic based macro systems of Microsoft Office.