sounds in Publisher 2002

[Tomi]

how can I turn off the annoying sounds, in particular the one that
accompanies exceeded text box capacity and inquiry about autoflow?

There is no box in Options to check off.

I have looked for the sound in Windows/Media and can't find it.

 

[Ed Bennett]

how can I turn off the annoying sounds, in particular the one that
accompanies exceeded text box capacity and inquiry about autoflow?

Publisher has no built-in sounds. The sound you mention is a built-in
Windows sound called "Question".

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Add to Ed's reply:

Control Panel / Sounds & Audio Devices / Sounds

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Tomi]

Thanks, Rob and Ed.
However, 'Question' in my XP is not a sound, but a category for which to
pick a sound. I had already made this silent. I cannot find any sound
offered in the predictable folders in the Windows scheme that is either
called 'question' or sounds like the sound I'm trying to delete.
In fact my Control Panel sound options do not deal with any Office
products--it does, for instance, with Works. You would assume that making
'Question' silent would solve the problem, but it didn't. So for now until I
figure it out I've made the whole system silent, and I'll forgo the few
agreeable, reassuring sounds that I don't mind.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Thanks, Rob and Ed.
However, 'Question' in my XP is not a sound, but a category for which to
pick a sound. I had already made this silent.

Different wordings; I didn't mean a sound file, but a particular named
sound in the Sounds dialog.

I have no idea what can be creating these sounds; it's certainly not
Publisher.

 

[Tomi]

I found the sound, Ed, so I'll put it in here in case someone else is
interested in the same issue.
It's not the sound you put in for 'Question' at the Control Panel/Sounds,
but the sound you put in for 'Asterisk', and the sound itself is called
'Windows XP Error.wav' and is indeed in the Windows/Media folder, I had
somehow overlooked it before. There is a similar one called 'Windows XP
Exclamation.wav', less annoying but still grating. I have removed the two
sounds from the sound scheme, and kept the wav files themselves with a little
tag at the end so I know a year from now not to ever reuse them.
And please don't say again that the sound is not in Publisher. Everyone
with a sense of how Windows works knows that. I have no intention of suing
Publisher for making midnight noises that awaken my spouse.