WORD docs opening without "chime" sound

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WORD docs opening without "chime" sound

Another esoteric problem. If I click on a WORD doc in the finder to open it or want to launch the program and/or the document from the Apple "Recent Items" menu the program and/or document open up silently.

However, if I open up the same document from within the already opened WORD program I hear that nice welcoming chime sound. I remember it being universal but maybe I am misremembering. Has it always been like this? I spoke with a nice Microsoft employee today but she had not a clue.

A system sound problem to go with my barking dog issue? 😟

G5 Quad Core Tower, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Dec 27, 2006 11:01 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 28, 2006 11:56 PM in response to duncecap

Oh boy! I'm gonna get my first 10 points for answering:

The problem is:

There is no problem. My word does that as well. Its no error, its just that the MS Office developers didn't take the time to put the chime in when you open it off the desktop. (BTW when I was testing to see how the chime worked, my volume was all the way up ,I almost passed out form shock).

One sound problem down, one (dog) to go!

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duncecap Author

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Dec 29, 2006 12:12 AM in response to ParkerKuivila

Amazing! 10 points for you! You should work for MS. Now why the nice woman over there didn't know this is beyond me. So, it works when you open it up from within WORD but not from the system - desktop/finder/recent items list.

Why can't they just add the darn thing? Seems simple. Or maybe it has to do somehow with interacting with the OS....

Thank you very much for solving this!

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Answer 3

Dec 29, 2006 12:34 AM in response to duncecap

Yep, when im in MS Word and open sumthing it goes DING!!!!!! when i open it from somewhere else it goes

yea

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