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:
Figure 1. The Text Effects tab of the Font dialog box.
You should note that the animation formatting is visible only on the screen. Animated text will not affect how your document is printed.
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2021-06-06 12:24:19
PHK
Does not work in MS Word in MS 365 - The Text Effects tab has been reduced to rubbish.
Why??
2020-11-28 09:56:08
Steve Rawcliffe
Probably be good to mention that this feature was heavily altered at least 10 years ago, removing all the animation options, sadly.
See discussion here:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/in-word-2013-how-can-i-get-the-text-effects-that/1cd8142d-74e4-4c06-b3e8-ae159cdb9969?page=1
2020-10-22 12:31:56
Joe Schmoe
Updated in 2020 but only for these very old versions of word - update date is misleading
2018-08-08 06:23:52
Tapas Kumar Maji
This feature is not available in Office 2010, please help if any other alternate option is there for that.
2017-11-30 00:35:24
Paul
Why use these "circus" functions?
When your writing is any good it will be red anyway.
When it's rubish, fancy formatting and animation won't make it better, only more anoying.
2017-10-17 15:15:12
Maritta
so how does one do this in Word 2016????
2017-01-31 11:39:11
jack
This doesn't work on newer versions of ms word. You must be using an old version.
2016-08-30 07:50:38
KULBIR
THANKS AND REGARDS
2016-04-04 09:37:53
allen@sharonparq.com
Robert: Note the very last paragraph of the tip: It doesn't affect how your document is printed.
-Allen
2016-04-04 09:09:32
animated text fails to work in my printed Word 2000 document
2015-09-22 20:02:31
George
Be sure that animations are enabled under TOOLS, OPTIONS, VIEW. Word 2003.
2014-12-31 20:41:26
Andreas Rejbrand
@Ellen: No need for that. Select the text you want to animate. Press Alt+F11 to open the Visual Basic editor. Press Ctrl+G to open the 'Immediate' window. Type "Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationShimmer" and press Enter. You can get a popup menu with all the animation constants there is.
2014-11-26 20:37:27
Meir
The described function doesn't exist in WORD 2010, I intend to upgrade to Word 2013. Does the animation tab exist in Word 2013 ?
2014-02-25 13:56:56
Ellen McKay
I am looking for a sample word document with animation in the text so I can use it for a 2007 word document. Can you assist me?
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