Visual Basic Compile Error - Invalid Character - vba

Question

I got a VB SCRIPT off the internet to create new mail alerts for secondary email accounts in Outlook(2010).
Now this is the first part of the code, and when running Outlook, it gives me the following error:
"Compile Error: Invalid Character"
The debugger underlines the _ character in the following line: "sndPlaySoundA" _
'On the next line change the file name and path of the sound you want to play.'
Public Const SOUND_TO_PLAY = "C:\Windows\Media\Speech On.wav"
Public Const SND_ASYNC = &H1
Public Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _
(ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long Public Declare Function MessageBox _
Lib "User32" Alias "MessageBoxA" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal lpText As String, _
ByVal lpCaption As String, _
ByVal wType As Long) _
As Long
Function OpenOutlookFolder(strFolderPath As String) As Outlook.MAPIFolder
' Purpose: Opens an Outlook folder from a folder path.'
' Written: 4/24/2009'
' Author: BlueDevilFan'
' Outlook: All versions'
Dim arrFolders As Variant, _
varFolder As Variant, _
bolBeyondRoot As Boolean
On Error Resume Next
If strFolderPath = "" Then
Set OpenOutlookFolder = Nothing
Else
Do While Left(strFolderPath, 1) = "\"
strFolderPath = Right(strFolderPath, Len(strFolderPath) - 1)
Loop
arrFolders = Split(strFolderPath, "\")
For Each varFolder In arrFolders
Select Case bolBeyondRoot
Case False
Set OpenOutlookFolder = Outlook.Session.Folders(varFolder)
bolBeyondRoot = True
Case True
Set OpenOutlookFolder = OpenOutlookFolder.Folders(varFolder)
End Select
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
Set OpenOutlookFolder = Nothing
Exit For
End If
Next
End If
On Error GoTo 0
End Function
UPDATE: A new error has risen: (After I fixed the New line issue on line 1 after "sndPlaySoundA") as refered to by Adrian below)
"Compile Error Expected: End of statement" and the following word is highlighted: "Public"
UPDATE2: Next error:
Compile Error: User defined type not defined(For "Mailbox - supportdesk\Inbox")
Dim objFM1 As FolderMonitor
Private Sub Application_Quit()
Set objFM1 = Nothing
End Sub
Private Sub Application_Startup()
Set objFM1 = New FolderMonitor
'Edit the folder path on the next line as needed.'
objFM1.FolderToWatch OpenOutlookFolder("Mailbox - supportdesk\Inbox")
End Sub

Answer 1

According to the code sample you've provided there you need a new line immediately after the _. The underscore character is a line continuation in VBA (which is what you're using, not VBScript. Slightly different beasts) and so requires that you continue on the next line, not the same line. So instead of
Public Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _ (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long Public Declare Function MessageBox _
Lib "User32" Alias "MessageBoxA" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal lpText As String, _
ByVal lpCaption As String, _
ByVal wType As Long) _
As Long
you should have
Public Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _
(ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function MessageBox _
Lib "User32" Alias "MessageBoxA" _
(ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal lpText As String, _
ByVal lpCaption As String, _
ByVal wType As Long) _
As Long
EDIT: I obviously didn't read all the way to the end of that example line, or else I would have seen that the example somehow managed to mash two function declarations onto one line as well as using the invalid positioning of the line separator. I've fixed that up now.