XL98: No Direct Visual Basic Equivalent for SOUND.PLAY()

ID: Q191122

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, there is no equivalent for the Excel 4.0 macro function Sound.Play().

MORE INFORMATION

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.

REFERENCES

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:

Q176476 OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions

Additional query words: XL98

Keywords : kbdta xlvbahowto xlminfo
Version : MACINTOSH:98
Platform : MACINTOSH
Issue type : kbhowto