Re: Play WAV file

<john@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi John,

> Does anyone have any ideas how I can play a WAV file on a Mac. I am
> running Mac Excel 5.2. All of the VBA examples I have found on the web
> are for running Wav files under Windows.

There are plenty of apps that can play WAV on MacOS X. You can try
searching for WAV on http://www.versiontracker.com/

> There should be a way, but VBA is much less user-friendly on a Mac. I
> can insert the WAV file as a "movie" and it had a toolbar with a Play
> button. I can get the WAV file to play manually and tried to record a
> macro, but no luck.

WAV is not really one of the core formats of QuickTIme ;-) That's the
base of your problem since Office relies on QT for audio/video playback.

>
> If I can't play a WAV file, does anyone know how to generate
> interesting beeps?

Convert them to a format QuickTime supports natively...

Corentin

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