Animating Your Text

Beginning in Word 97 (and continuing in later versions), 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:

1. Select the text you want to animate.
2. Choose Font from the Format menu. Word displays the Font dialog box.
3. Make sure the Animation tab is selected. (Click here to see a related figure.)
4. 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.
5. 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.