Absence of "Exclamation" event sound in certain Office 2010 apps

Hi John,

Let us refer to the following thread which discusses a similar issue and check if it helps:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-no-sound-notification-when-closing/b54c0f08-9407-4f32-85de-07033759d653

If the above information does not help, then you may reply for further assistance.

Thank you

Hello Girish:

Thank you for the reply.  I am afraid, though, the thread does not exactly relate to my issue.

The only sound missing for me in Office 2010 is the Windows Exclamation event sound when exiting either Word, Excel, or PowerPoint when the document was changed.  The Exclamation window that asks "Do you want to save changes you made to ........." does not active the event wave file.  Strangely, though, Outlook 2010 will activate the event wave file upon closing and there are e-mails in the "Deleted" folder.

Therefore, my situation is not that Office 2010 is closing too quickly or that there is no wave file associated to the system Exclamation event or the sound is muted.

To me, this issue seems to be a "bug" in Office 2010 - perhaps when the 32-bit version of Office 2010 is installed on a 64-bit machine.

This issue is not a show stopper, just an annoyance to me after being used to the wave file executing when exiting the Office app.

Thanks again.

I contacted Microsoft Tech Support today regarding not having Exclamation Event sounds in Office 2010.  They informed me that MS decided to disable these event sounds in Office 2010 and Office 2013.

FWIW: They offered to log my issue as a request to re-enable the event sounds in Office for future release.

I'm having exactly the same issue - windows sounds such as exclamation will sound in Outlook 2010 but NOT in WORD.... strange 

can't find a fix