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WordBASIC is the old macro and scripting language used in Microsoft Word prior to Word 97.

Very old versions of Microsoft Word (prior to Word 97) had a macro language called WordBASIC, which was based on QuickBASIC. It has a flat procedural approach to scripting document changes and consists of approximately 900 commands. Word 97 replaced it with as the object-oriented programming language for manipulating documents.

Some versions of Word can automatically convert old WordBASIC programs to VBA syntax when opening templates using them.

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WordBasic to modern find directory VBA

Currently I'm having an issue with WordBasic my company recently decided to update their system from 2007 to Word 365 but, according to Google, WordBasic is a relic from Word 97 which no longer works on Word. I need to retrieve the directory of…
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How to convert a VB UserDialog to VBA UserForm?

I have this really old macro from 1996 (yes!) that I think is somewhat Visual Basic (not sure tho) that I cannot get to work in VBA. The most of the code is running fine, but I am troubled by the UserForm as it is called Dialog in this code. I think…
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WordBasic MACRO for Word 365 runtime error '102'

My uncle has been working with a WordBasic template and cannot update his computer. He is running the macro on Word 2011. When trying to add the macro to Word 365 we receive the following error message: Run time error '102' When debugging we receive…
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OLE automation WordBasic macro for signing document

I am looking for a way how to sign a Word document using OLE automation. Is there a macro of WordBasic object which I could use? Something like Signatures.Add in VBA. Thanks for help.
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