Playing embedded sound in a windows office doc on a mac

Does anyone know if it is possible to play embedded sounds created in word docs on a windows machine on the Mac. Office for Mac does not work. The file seems to be looking for the windows recorder. Does anyone have any ideas for a workaround?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Dave

No response to this So I am marking it answered just to clean up a bit

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Playing embedded sound in a windows office doc on a mac

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