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Anything that increases your skillset in your career is a good investment of your time and money. Learning the basics of VB will help you to better understand both the code and those who write it.
Additionally, if you work in Word, it'll familiarize you to some degree with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), which Office uses for macros. Basic knowledge of VB/VBA has helped me many times when I needed to create a macro to automate repetitive stuff.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R D
>Subject: Visual Basic and Tech Writing
>
>Dear All,
>
>Has anyone learned VB as a tool to become a better
>technical writer? I have the opportunity to take a VB
>class and I'm wondering about it's merits in regard to
>tech writing-
