In Microsoft Excel, to play a sound file from disk in a Visual Basic
macro, use the ExecuteExcel4Macro method.
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In a Microsoft Excel version 4.0 macro, to play a sound file directly
from a disk, use the SOUND.PLAY() macro function. For example, to play
a sound file called CHIMES.WAV, located in your Windows directory, you
would use the following line of macro code:
=SOUND.PLAY(,"C:\WINDOWS\CHIMES.WAV")
In Microsoft Excel version 5.0, the nearest Visual Basic equivalent to
SOUND.PLAY() is SoundNote.Play. However, this function will only play
sound files that have been added to Microsoft Excel documents as sound
notes.
Because of this limitation, you must use the ExecuteExcel4Macro method
to play a sound file directly from disk in a Visual Basic macro. The
Visual Basic equivalent of the macro code above is:
Sub PlaySound()
Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro _
"SOUND.PLAY(,""C:\WINDOWS\CHIMES.WAV"")"
End Sub
Note the use of double quotation marks in this macro. These quotation
marks are necessary because the first set of quotation marks are
removed before the command is executed.