Well, WordBasic certainly isn't similar to Visual Basic, at least not close
enough to try to use VB Help with it. Fortunately, you can still download
the WordBasic Help from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=26572.
The MVP site has a couple of articles that may also help you:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/WordBasicToVBA.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/WordBasicCommands.htm
When Word switched from WordBasic to VBA, it included a WordBasic object
that essentially mimics the entire macro environment from the earlier
versions. It was meant as a way to take old macros from Word 6 or 7 and run
them as if nothing had changed. There are a few things it won't handle, but
it's been so long now that I can't remember what they were.
If you're going to extend the old macros, though, it will usually be worth
the effort to ask what job each old macro did, and then rewrite it from
scratch in VBA. Compared to running the old code through the WordBasic
object, properly written "native" VBA will be faster and easier to extend.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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