# Text Effect

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/1847
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 13, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/1847 "2002-05-13T18:44:01Z")
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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: [May 13, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/1847/1 "2002-05-13T18:44:01Z")

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i want to create text that starts off small and then gets big over time and stops at one point, how do i do that?

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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: [May 13, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-effect/1847/2 "2002-05-13T18:55:23Z")

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Use the scale tab to adjust the size of the text, do it by tweening the scale. You might want to put a stop in the last key frame.