# Letter Spacing Animation - Tween / AS3

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letter-spacing-animation-tween-as3/286284>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 13, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letter-spacing-animation-tween-as3/286284 "2009-04-13T12:02:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![gnrlbzik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@gnrlbzik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gnrlbzik)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/letter-spacing-animation-tween-as3/286284/1 "2009-04-13T12:02:55Z")

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Just wondering,

**my brain might be misplaced, but never the less**

scenario is very simple, want to create animation of the text where at frame 1, letter spacing is 0 and at frame 200, letter spacing is 60 for specified text

this process is unsuccessful via motion tween in cs4 flash, and i guess neither in earlier versions, nor that i have done that before. but i was certain that it would be very straight forward to achieve via motion tween, so far it feels that i was wrong and for such simple animation and straight forward concept, i have no idea why it doesn’t work, again, via motion tween.

i presume i can write AS3 code spinet that would run every frame and increase or decrease property value for letterSpacing, to achieve the effect.

but my curiosity is: why such basic manipulation of text can not be done via motion tween? or may be it can be done but i just doing it wrong. some one please put me on the right path.

THANK YOU : )