No Direct Visual Basic Equivalent for SOUND.PLAY()

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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.