Gaining Visual Basic OLE super-powers

Visual Basic in its various incarnations and off-springs has super-powers when it comes to OLE Automation, aka late-bound COM through IDispatch. Super Powers? For instance, when doing MS Word OLE automation, you can in VBS and VBA write things like WordApp.Documents[1].Name which in Delphi (and many others) has to be written as WordApp.Documents.Item(1).Name and it [...]