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From FMS: Forces Modeling and Simulation Handout JSU HPC Summer Institute for Undergraduates, Jackson MS -- June 15 1998. by Wojtek Furmanski, Subhash Nair, Tom Pulikal
1 Microsoft soon released its Office suite of applications. The large base of Win95 users and the ever-growing popularity of the applications themselves rendered the release of customized or multi-featured versions of Office unfeasible. Consequently in order to maintain the user-base something had to be provided to allow the user to customize his working environment to his own convenience. Care had to be taken to see that any such medium would not be very complicated to use and would easily facilitate rapid development. The ease-of-use and its tight bond with the Windows environment rendered Visual Basic as the ideal medium for this purpose.
2 Visual Basic was soon selected as the standard scripting language for the Office family of applications. It was then endowed with a vast array of so-called Object Libraries specific to each application in the Office Suite. The programming core remained the same. Thus was born Visual Basic for Applications
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