Microsoft KB Archive/211842

= WD2000: How to Play a .wav Sound File Using a Macro =

Article ID: 211842

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
The following Microsoft Word macro example demonstrates how you can use Visual Basic for Applications to play a .wav sound file.



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For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

The following macro uses the Windows API GetWindowDirectory to retrieve the Windows directory. It then uses the Windows API sndPlaySound to play the himes.wav file located in that directory. Private Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias _ "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) _ As Long

Private Declare Function GetWindowsDirectoryA Lib "Kernel32" _ (ByVal lpBuffer As String, ByVal nSize As Long) As Long

NOTE: Place the Private Declare statements in the General Declarations section of the Visual Basic for Applications Editor window.

Sub PlayWav Dim sBuf As String Dim cSize As Long Dim retval As Long Dim Windir As String

'Create a variable large enough to store the Windows path. sBuf = String(255, 0) cSize = 255

'Get Windows Directory retval = GetWindowsDirectoryA(sBuf, cSize)

'Strip buffer from Windows directory Windir = Left(sBuf, retval)

'Load and Play the sound. N = sndPlaySound(Windir + "\Media\Chimes.wav", 0)

End Sub

Additional query words: 9.0 vb vba vbe offcon wordcon

Keywords: kbdtacode kbhowto kbmacro kbprogramming kbsound KB211842

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