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XL98: No Direct Visual Basic Equivalent for SOUND.PLAY()
This article was previously published under Q191122
In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, there is no equivalent for the
Excel 4.0 macro function Sound.Play().
If you want to play a sound using a Visual Basic for Applications macro,
use the ExecuteExcel4Macro method to run the Sound.Play() function.
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The following sample macro assumes you have a sound file named Clear on a
hard drive named Macintosh HD. If your hard drive is named differently,
substitute the name of your hard drive in the macro.
Sub PlaySound()
Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro _
"SOUND.PLAY(,""Macintosh HD:Clear"")"
End Sub
Note the use of double quotation marks in this macro. These quotation
marks are necessary because the path to the sound file is a string, which
is included inside the outer string.
For more information about the ExecuteExcel4Macro Method, from the Visual
Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type
executeexcel4macro, click
Search, and then click to view "ExecuteExcel4Macro Method."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the
Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please
see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
176476Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=176476/EN-US/
)
OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions
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