My thanks to you both. I've modified your suggestions to suit the overall design and the result is just what I hoped for.

What I notice is that regardless of how the sound clip stops, ie if it's stopped part played or played through completely then cleared from the screen by the user clicking on the red dot, I hear a few notes from the start when the next page is opened regardless of whether it has any sounds on the new page or not. Do you think this is my computer set up (nothing special) or perhaps the clip I'm using - at present for test purposes I have the same clip in each page.

I hope this doesn't sound picky or ungrateful. Even as it is it's just what I wanted.

Thanks

Flip