How do I embed a sound as a background in an Outlook message?

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Average Joe - 19 Sep 2007 17:44 GMT

I have Vista and Office 2007. With Windows Mail, I can embed a sound that
plays immediately whenever the recipient views my message, via
Format/Background/Sounds. But I can't do this in Outlook. Or can I?

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Katelyn - 19 Sep 2007 19:08 GMT

> I have Vista and Office 2007. With Windows Mail, I can embed a sound that
> plays immediately whenever the recipient views my message, via
> Format/Background/Sounds. But I can't do this in Outlook. Or can I?

did you ever happen to find out the answer to your question? b/c i'm
curious as well.

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Average Joe - 19 Sep 2007 19:14 GMT

Not yet. Stay tuned.

> > I have Vista and Office 2007. With Windows Mail, I can embed a sound that
> > plays immediately whenever the recipient views my message, via
> > Format/Background/Sounds. But I can't do this in Outlook. Or can I?
>
> did you ever happen to find out the answer to your question? b/c i'm
> curious as well.

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Brian Tillman - 19 Sep 2007 23:18 GMT

> I have Vista and Office 2007. With Windows Mail, I can embed a sound
> that plays immediately whenever the recipient views my message, via
> Format/Background/Sounds. But I can't do this in Outlook. Or can I?

See if this helps: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/addingsound.htm

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Average Joe - 20 Sep 2007 00:48 GMT

Thanks for the assistance! The instructions at your linked site looked
perfect. But they didn't work...maybe because I'm on Outlook 2007 in Vista.
I didn't get the set-Word option. And when I clicked Toolbars/Web, no window
popped up.

Katelyn, did this work for you?

Brian, many thanks for the suggestion anyway. If you have any ideas about
how I can get around the lack of Outlook responsiveness, I'd love to know.

Joe

> > I have Vista and Office 2007. With Windows Mail, I can embed a sound
> > that plays immediately whenever the recipient views my message, via
> > Format/Background/Sounds. But I can't do this in Outlook. Or can I?
>
> See if this helps: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/addingsound.htm

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Brian Tillman - 20 Sep 2007 14:25 GMT

> Thanks for the assistance! The instructions at your linked site
> looked perfect. But they didn't work...maybe because I'm on Outlook
> 2007 in Vista. I didn't get the set-Word option. And when I clicked
> Toolbars/Web, no window popped up.

Try writing to the page's author or see if he'll respond in this thread. He
does read these groups.

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Average Joe - 24 Sep 2007 20:14 GMT

Thanks. I did. He said that Microsoft took that capability out of Outlook
2007, and he thanked me for reminding him to change his page. Just one more
reason to yearn for the good ole days of Office 2003 in XP.

> > Thanks for the assistance! The instructions at your linked site
> > looked perfect. But they didn't work...maybe because I'm on Outlook
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> Try writing to the page's author or see if he'll respond in this thread. He
> does read these groups.

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