I don't know who approved the inclusion of VB in Word, but that person is a hero.
WordBasic was a career-maker for me. I worked at a Big-6 consulting firm and used Word to parse and rewrite thousands of SQL modules (that resided on a VAX, no less) with a Word macro when the DB structure changed. It ran for 11 hours and saved man-weeks.
That was after I had used WordBasic to add tons of features to Word for our doc team, which we take for granted today: cross-file searches, cross-file page numbering, style enforcement... just incredible.
It's sad to see the mess that Word has become, however. And Windows too.
WordBasic was a career-maker for me. I worked at a Big-6 consulting firm and used Word to parse and rewrite thousands of SQL modules (that resided on a VAX, no less) with a Word macro when the DB structure changed. It ran for 11 hours and saved man-weeks.
That was after I had used WordBasic to add tons of features to Word for our doc team, which we take for granted today: cross-file searches, cross-file page numbering, style enforcement... just incredible.
It's sad to see the mess that Word has become, however. And Windows too.