Beep Action

Description

You can use the Beep action to sound a beep tone through the computer’s speaker.

Setting

The Beep action doesn’t use any arguments.

Remarks

You can use the Beep action to signal the following occurrences:

  • Important screen changes have occurred.
  • The wrong kind of data has been entered in a control. For example, the user has entered numeric data in a Text control.
  • A macro has reached a specified point or has completed its actions.

The frequency and duration of the beep depend on hardware, which may vary between computers.

To run the Beep action in Visual Basic, use the Beep method of the DoCmd object.

See Also

Beep Method; MsgBox Action; ValidationRule, ValidationText Properties.