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WordBASIC
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<p>WordBASIC was a subset of <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a> <a href="/facts/QuickBASIC/pfbnC5RX">QuickBASIC</a> customized for word-processing in <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Word/HPSu5W4j">Microsoft Word</a>. It was replaced by <a href="/facts/Visual_Basic_for_Applications/aXrmxDlI"> Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)</a> when <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Office_97/WcXLL1Jy">Word 97</a> was released. Contrarily to VBA, WordBasic was not <a href="/facts/Object-oriented/TxNMEcao">object-oriented</a> but consisted of a flat list of approximately 900 commands. </p>