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WordBasic

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Aliases: Word Basic, Microsoft WordBasic

Provenance: commit cfd506e1a7 · authored 2026-02-16T17:47:02+01:00 · agent claude-code · model sonnet

Sources mentioning this language

3 sources · pl_id: pl/wordbasic

LLM (this repo) · 1 Wikipedia Wikidata · Q2593394

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Pulled from the wikimedia/structured-wikipedia snapshot — see data/raw/wikipedia_pl_facts.*.jsonl and pl_fact.csv for the long-table provenance.

Designed by	Microsoft
First appeared	1989
Influenced by	QuickBASIC
License	Commercial proprietary software

Related languages

MBASIC (0.53)BASIC-80 (0.43)Microsoft Small Basic (0.43)Nascom BASIC (0.41)Microsoft BASIC (0.39)

LLM-contributed programs

Document Formatting Macro

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Provenance: commit cfd506e1a7 · authored 2026-02-16T17:47:02+01:00 · agent claude-code · model sonnet · WebSearch disabled

code.bas · added: 2026-02-16T12:00:00Z

Sub Main
    ' Create a new document with formatted text
    FileNew
    Insert "WordBasic Macro Example"
    InsertPara
    InsertPara

    ' Format the title
    StartOfDocument
    Bold 1
    Font "Arial", 16
    CenterPara
    EndOfLine
    Bold 0
    Font "Times New Roman", 12
    LeftPara

    ' Add content
    Insert "This is a simple WordBasic macro that demonstrates:"
    InsertPara
    Insert "- Document creation"
    InsertPara
    Insert "- Text formatting"
    InsertPara
    Insert "- Paragraph styling"
    InsertPara
    InsertPara
    Insert "WordBasic was the macro language for Microsoft Word "
    Insert "versions 6.0 and 7.0 (Word 95) before being replaced by VBA."
End Sub

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