Book excerpt: "I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s - here's what I discovered"

[dickthegrouch]

5. Visual Basic is what underpinned MS Word and other Office applications for years

These days they've all been rewritten in HTML, with even more bugs than in the classic forms.
And pushed to "the cloud" so that nefarious persons can either monitor, or outright steal, all your creativity for their own purposes.
If any of the cloud storage providers had any integrity whatsoever, they'd allow the user to create their own encryption keys, not create, and store, them for you.
Better yet, they'd design an operating system and applications that actually followed the mantra of "Secure by Design, and Secure by Default" coined by the authors of GDPR back in 2013 or so.