Animating Your Text

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 11, 2021)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003

You can add a little pizzazz to your documents by animating your text. What does that mean? Simply that you can make it wiggle, blink, shimmer, and shake on the screen. This formatting can be applied to any characters you desire by following these steps:

Select the text you want to animate.
Choose Font from the Format menu. Word displays the Font dialog box.
Make sure the Text Effects tab is selected. (See Figure 1.) (In Word 97 you select the Animation tab.)

Figure 1. The Text Effects tab of the Font dialog box.

In the Animations list, select the animation effect you want applied to your text. In the preview area of the dialog box you can see how your text will appear.
Click on OK.

You should note that the animation formatting is visible only on the screen. Animated text will not affect how your document is printed.

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (613) applies to Microsoft Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003.

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Allen Wyatt

With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. Learn more about Allen...

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2025-01-06 20:23:05

Mohammad

FAO: Allen Wyatt

Hi!

Can I get flashing texts in other versions of MS Word?

Thanks!

Mohammad

2022-02-28 06:17:18

Doppelbob

Not working in Word 2016

2022-02-24 17:39:28

Noel V.

Is there a Word feature where you can click on a subject line of text and the rest of the paragraph's text appears and disappears as you toggle?

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