Animation Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

Returns or sets the type of animation applied to the font. Read/write WdAnimation.

WdAnimation can be one of these WdAnimation constants.
wdAnimationBlinkingBackground
wdAnimationLasVegasLights
wdAnimationMarchingRedAnts
wdAnimationShimmer
wdAnimationMarchingBlackAnts
wdAnimationNone
wdAnimationSparkleText

expression.Animation

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Example

This example animates the text in a new document.

Dim docNew As Document

Set docNew = Documents.Add

With docNew.Content
    .InsertAfter "This is a test of animation."
    .Font.Animation = wdAnimationLasVegasLights
End With
		

This example animates the selected text.

If Selection.Type = wdSelectionNormal Then
    Selection.Font.Animation = wdAnimationShimmer
Else
    MsgBox "You need to select some text."
End If