Embedding Sound Files in Excel 3.x (97824)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows Sound System 1.0
  • Microsoft Windows Sound System 1.0a
  • Microsoft Windows Sound System 2.0
This article was previously published under Q97824

SUMMARY

Version 3.x of Microsoft Excel for Windows is one of the first applications to use OLE. It predates much of the OLE functionality described in the current specifications used by Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.1.

Because Excel 3.x is older than the current OLE specification, it behaves differently than other, more recent, OLE client applications.

In Excel 3.x, you cannot play embedded objects; you can only edit them. Multiverb objects, such as Sound or Note-It objects, cannot be played or run. If you try to play an embedded object by double-clicking it, the respective editing program comes up instead.

For example, if you run Quick Recorder and embed a .WAV file, the icon will be displayed. However, when you double-click to play the file, the Quick Recorder will run instead.

Excel 4.0 fully implements the OLE 1.0 specification.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/14/2003
Keywords:KB97824
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