Good afternoon Jaws Users group. When I refreshed my PC, I decided to leave word 2010 off of my computer for now. But I could not stand to not have any office sounds in outlook 2016 or in word 2016. So after doing some searching and playing around with the below steps, I finally figured out how to get the office sounds working if you are just using the latest Outlook or word without any prior office versions on your computer. Warning, first go to file explorer options, view tab, change to allow hidden folders, tab to the OK button, press enter. Now go and download the office sounds from the Microsoft website.
1. Run sounds.exe - it will give you an error message. Don't click this error message away. Just leave the error message opened on your computer. With the error message still up, go to your AppData folder (HDD:\Users\**Your username**\appdata\local\temp, and search for sounds.msi, and run it with Admin rights. *This is where I was confused for a minute. Go to users/your users name/appdata/local/temp. Press Control+E, for the search edit, type, sounds.msi Now tab until you here the full path of the sound.exe file, press enter. Say yes to users account, the office sounds install dialog will now come up for you. Follow all the prompts, close this window and the open error message window message you left open. *Step two. After this installation completes, go into Office or Word, and disable the option "Provide feedback with sound" if already checked, close your app, reload and re-enable it. If already enabled, just enable it, other words, just press the spacebar, make sure it is checked, tab to OK, press enter. * Follow my directions, I just opened up word 2016 and did the following. 1. Press ALT+F, followed by the letter T, for word options. 2. Go to the advanced tab. 3. Faster to Shift+Tab, and go to, Provide feedback with sound checkbox. 4. I pressed the spacebar to uncheck, and pressed the spacebar to check it again, tab to the OK button, press enter. 5. Now close word 2016, open it again, you should have sounds. 6. This is fantastic, I finally have my sounds back in outlook 2016 and word 2016, with no prior word products installed on my computer. Good luck... Smiles. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
