Hi,
I have a workbook that I want to have play certain wav files as alerts.
These are not the windows standard wav files so whenever an even triggers a
wav aleart, excel has to open the file and then play it.

This slows things down as the mouse icon turns into the "hour-glass" for a
second.

Is there a way to have excel either run the playsound in the background or
preload the file into memory so there is no wait?

Thanks!