How do I turn off the sound effects on Pages 2?

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How do I turn off the sound effects on Pages 2?

The chirping sound that the blinking cursor makes is driving me crazy. (The computer emits other sounds as I move the pointer over the document as well.) I've tried turning off my computer speakers, turning down the computer's general volume, all to no avail. I'm new to Pages, and I see no reference to my problem in Apple support materials or the forums. Help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. Thank you!

PowerMac7,3, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on May 29, 2007 3:00 PM

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Answer 1

BPEX

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May 29, 2007 4:11 PM in response to tadiator

Is this unique to Pages? AFAIK, Pages does not have sound effects like you describe. Seems odd that reducing/muting volume has no effect. Does this happen with other apps? It sort of sounds like a hardware problem. Maybe with more information someone here can help you figure it out.
Post back with whatever else you can describe.

MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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tadiator Author

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May 29, 2007 5:14 PM in response to BPEX

Yes, the sound problem is unique to Pages. The sounds stop when I switch to iTunes, Safari, Word, iPhoto, any other simultaneously running program. The sounds on Pages are in sync with the speed of the blinking cursor or of the moving pointer. And when I stop the cursor from blinking by highlighting a phrase in the document, the muted but discernible chirping sound also stops. I hope this description is helpful! Thanks.

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tadiator Author

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May 29, 2007 5:14 PM in response to BPEX

Yes, the sound problem is unique to Pages. The sounds stop when I switch to iTunes, Safari, Word, iPhoto, any other simultaneously running program. The sounds on Pages are in sync with the speed of the blinking cursor or of the moving pointer. And when I stop the cursor from blinking by highlighting a phrase in the document, the muted but discernible chirping sound also stops. I hope this description is helpful! Thanks.

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Answer 4

May 29, 2007 9:21 PM in response to tadiator

Never heard of that. I do not think it is a sound effect. My guess would be that it is a hardware sound of some kind, like if the processor or graphics card or whatever those things are work every time the cursor blinks.

I have a very soft sound every time a character is deleted, when I hold down the delete key in any application. I guess it is something similar, even though your noise sounds louder.

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Tulse

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May 30, 2007 6:42 AM in response to tadiator

You might try changing your display depth and/or refresh rate (in Displays in the System Preferences), and see if that has any effect (if it does, the problem is very likely a hardware issue). You might also see if re-installing the application fixes the problem.

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May 30, 2007 9:57 AM in response to tadiator

Pages sometimes does some funny things. Let's just for the sake of an argument say that it is possible that it calls a routine in the graphics card that no other application calls. And that particular routine for some reason generates a sound. Why? Resonance perhaps?

This is just a guess of course, but I think it is likely that the real cause of the problem follows the same kind of principle.

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tadiator Author

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May 30, 2007 6:32 AM in response to SermoDaturCunctis

But my problem is restricted to Pages, not any other application. Would that still make it a hardware issue? Thanks for your input.

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tadiator Author

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Jun 1, 2007 3:19 PM in response to Tulse

I will try both those things. Thanks for the suggestions.

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