Blinking Text

Question

From my Word 2003 I have blinking text in some of my templates.  How can I eliminate the blinking text in Word 2007 documents

Answer 1

In Word 2007, text effects aren't supported in the user interface (the feature was restored in Word 2010), but you can clear them by using a macro. For example, the following line of code deletes the effects from the selection:

Selection.Range.Font.Animation = wdAnimationNone

To clear the setting from a style, use the following syntax:

ActiveDocument.Styles("stylename").Font.Animation = wdAnimationNone

For more information on macros, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

Answer 2

You can restore the text effects funtionality with a macro e.g.

Sub AnimateFont()

Dim sAnimation As String

If Len(Selection.Range) = 0 Then

    MsgBox "Select text first!", vbCritical, "No Text Selected"

    Exit Sub

End If

sAnimation = InputBox("Which animation? Enter the number: " & vbCr & _

            "   1. Blinking Background" & vbCr & _

            "   2. Las Vegas Lights" & vbCr & _

            "   3. Marching Black Ants" & vbCr & _

            "   4. Marching Red Ants" & vbCr & _

            "   5. Shimmer" & vbCr & _

            "   6. Sparkle Text" & vbCr & _

            "   0. None", "Font animation")

    Select Case sAnimation

        Case 1: Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationBlinkingBackground

        Case 2: Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationLasVegasLights

        Case 3: Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationMarchingBlackAnts

        Case 4: Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationMarchingRedAnts

        Case 5: Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationShimmer

        Case 6: Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationSparkleText

        Case 0: Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationNone

        Case Else:

    End Select

End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

Answer 3

The simplest way to turn them off, in any version of Word, is to select the text and press Ctrl+Spacebar to clear font formatting. This will clear other formatting such as bold or Italics as well.

If you actually want such text, it is not possible through the user interface directly. If you copy text already having one of the animation effects into a Ribbon version, though, it will retain that effect. You can download a document that has samples of each (as well as a template with them as AutoText) from here:

Animated Text Effects in Ribbon Versions of Word

Answer 4

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