Microsoft KB Archive/105202

= No Direct Visual Basic Equivalent for SOUND.PLAY =

Article ID: 105202

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q105202



SUMMARY
In Microsoft Excel, to play a sound file from disk in a Visual Basic macro, use the ExecuteExcel4Macro method.



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  =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.

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