# Animating Dynamic Text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dynamic-text/14770>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 2, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dynamic-text/14770 "2003-03-02T16:47:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Clarenz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Clarenz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Clarenz)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dynamic-text/14770/1 "2003-03-02T16:47:12Z")

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Anyone knows how to animate dynamic text?  
Cos everytime i attempt to animate the text, it become a symbol.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dynamic-text/14770/2 "2003-03-02T17:07:55Z")

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i don’t think this is what you are looking for, but here is a tutorial for ya :

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/ascript\_text\_animation.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/ascript_text_animation.htm)

otherwise in order to tween the text you need it to be a symbol or it won’t tween correctly

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dynamic-text/14770/3 "2003-03-03T04:48:31Z")

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you have to imbed font outlines too right?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-dynamic-text/14770/4 "2003-03-03T04:49:29Z")

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if its not a widely used font then yes…