Hello,

Directed to this place by MS Support Engr. I believe.

Earlier this week I attempted to install the sounds.exe file which the Office 2016 Preview pointed to when I said I wanted sounds associated with Office events.

Running Office 2016 Preview and the link to add sounds is apparently to a file, "sounds.exe" which is to an earlier version -- 2003 or Office XP -- not sure.  When I dld and attempted to install it popped errmsg, "This requires Office XYZQ which is not installed on your computer.  Please install Office XYZQ before re-attempting to install this sounds file.

My question is would the Office 2013 have a set of sounds associated with it in another "sounds.exe" or sounds13.exe, for example, and if it does can those be dld and installed to work with Office 2016 Preview?

• Edited by greenestguy 17 hours 38 minutes ago

Hi greenestguy

Based on the system requirements of official website, this add-in doesnt support Office 2013.

I find a workaround in Office 2013, you can have Office 2013 sounds on a Windows 8 64-bit system running 64-bit Office 2013.

Steps to reproduce (Replace with your account name):

1. Open C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp.
2. Run Sounds.exe as administrator.
3. DO NOT close the error message!
4. Look in the folder opened in step 1 and find the directory that was just created when you ran sounds.exe.
5. Install the Sounds.msi file located in that new folder.
6. After the install completes and closes, close the error dialog from running Sounds.exe in step 2.
7. The directory found in step 4 should disapear.
8. Reboot.

Remember to enable 'Sounds' by doing the following:

1. Launch MS Word 2013.
2. Click, FILE, OPTIONS, ADVANCED.
3. Go down to the GENERAL heading (near the bottom) and click on the "Provide Feedback with Sound" box.

Please refer to this case:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/ccb5b858-fc3f-4394-bb33-04f7899532c0/will-the-office-sounds-work-in-office-13?forum=officeitpro

But it seems that this workaround doesnt work fine for everyone, you can check if it works fine in your Office 2016.

Hope its helpful.

Regards,