# Letter by Letter text **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [October 25, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letter-by-letter-text/7188 "2002-10-25T05:22:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phatassfalyfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@phatassfalyfe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/phatassfalyfe)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letter-by-letter-text/7188/1 "2002-10-25T05:22:58Z")
okay, i’ve seen all these flash intros using text that comes in letter by letter then it leaves letter by letter instead of the whole word coming in or out ---
**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:** [October 25, 2002, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letter-by-letter-text/7188/2 "2002-10-25T05:31:18Z")
Usually that’s done using Swish, a program that creates text effects and then exports them as swf’s. Short of that, you’ll probebely have to set them up using motion tweens until you get a really good grasp of action script movement and string variable manipulation. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letter-by-letter-text/7188/3 "2002-10-25T07:48:55Z")
The simplest of the letter by letter animation is: you can do it with frame by frame animation - you type the letter a in the first frame, then you type the letter b, next to a, but you gotta insert a new keyframe on the main timeline first. Well that’s it. The second option is already mentioned - swish is a great programme for that effects. You just gotta find a copy and sit in front of your computer and i guarantee that in 5 mins you would have done the thing you wanted to do. Ciao