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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Animate a word or phrase in a larger text box

Do you want to animate just a word or a phrase in a larger text box? You cannot really isolate and animate it within the text box unless it is a full bullet or paragraph.

But there's a workaround -- follow these steps:
  1. Create a new text box which contains just the word or a short phrase that you want animated. Match it in formatting (text color, size, font type, etc.) to the same as the text in the larger text box.

  2. In the larger text box, remove that word or phrase from the rest of the text, and compensate for the removed space with empty spaces using the spacebar.

  3. Now place the word or phrase text box right over the existing box, in the position that you want it to be. You might have to tweak it by repositioning or resizing the box.

  4. Now animate the text box that contains the word or phrase.