Hi, Both Mike and Cristóbal suggestions are right. In the nearby past, the Provide Feedback with Sound settings was available in Advanced Options (General tab in Office 2003 and earlier) and required an add-in to work, which is freely available from the Microsoft Download Center. In this old way of implementing sounds in Office programs, the add-in creates a sub-folder in the Media folder containing various Office sounds and adds a Microsoft Office branch to the System Sound Events in the Sounds tab of the Sound dialog in Control Panel. By the way, you can mute individual sounds or change them with any wav file you want.
In a not too far in time update to Office 2016, Microsoft made some significant changes to this approach used since Office 97. Concerning the checkbox location, they moved it to a new Options category named Ease of Access, together with some other settings like Provide Feedback with Animations. Now there's no need to download and install the add-in. Other change, and the more significant one, is related to the sound assignments. While the old add-in allowed you to change individual sounds in Control Panel, the new implementation doesn't add anything there. Instead, there is now a combo box next to the Provide Feedback with Sound checkbox when it is checked, in which you can choose between Classic (which is the old Office default sound scheme, as the name says) or Modern. In general, sounds of the Modern scheme are quieter than the older ones. I feel more comfortable with the Classic scheme. In a few words, both Mike and Cristóbal answers are correct. Exact location of the Provide Feedback with Sound checkbox and possibility to mute individual sounds will depend on how up to date is your Office 2016 installation; Office 97 through 2013 will always use the old add-in based implementation, with checkbox on General tab or Advanced category and allowing to change or mute individual sounds through Control Panel. Hope it helps! -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of Kimsan Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 2:26 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] turning off sounds in word, outlook etc. Hi, I'm using office 2016, windows 10 pro and jaws 18. Every time I delete text it makes a sound, I thought to turn that off it was in the word options under advance. However, I just came from there and I do not see it. There are other sounds being made depending on the action, but I just used the delete for an example of what I'd like to do. These sounds occur in any office application, not one specific. I mentioned word earlier, since that is where I found it, to turn it off that is. If you are a wrestling fan, I invite you to visit my wrestling site for blogs and podcasts by navigating to: http://www.therasslincafe.com/ Also, you may like our page on facebook at <https://www.facebook.com/TheRasslinCafe/> https://www.facebook.com/TheRasslinCafe/ or join us on twitter @TheRasslinCafe For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
