Answers.Body: <p>I think you could achieve this just by key-framing the Source Text control in your text layer.
  Unless you have hundreds of them and need to do it programatically, I would just keyframe the changes of text, and the repositioning would happen automatically. 
  If I have misunderstood what you mean, please add some screen shots to explain what you need.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Hi tomh, I think this will also accomplish what I need to do, IVE just never had to keyframe source text before. After checking out a video on YT, it looks pretty straightforward. Thanks for the tip!
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Body: <p>I am looking to build an animation where in the middle of a sentence, a word gets deleted by character, then a new word is retyped on-screen and the back half of the sentence repositions as each letter is typed on. I tried to do some research and have a feeling this animation may need to utilize sourceRectAtTime or Delta expressions along with the type-on character text animator. What are your thoughts on accomplishing this?</p>
  
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Title: How do I dynamically reposition part of a sentence based on the width of a word in the middle of the sentence that will change?
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ThreadText: # How do I dynamically reposition part of a sentence based on the width of a word in the middle of the sentence that will change?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-05-27)
  
  I am looking to build an animation where in the middle of a sentence, a word gets deleted by character, then a new word is retyped on-screen and the back half of the sentence repositions as each letter is typed on. I tried to do some research and have a feeling this animation may need to utilize sourceRectAtTime or Delta expressions along with the type-on character text animator. What are your thoughts on accomplishing this?
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-05-28. Score: 0
  
  I think you could achieve this just by key-framing the Source Text control in your text layer.
  Unless you have hundreds of them and need to do it programatically, I would just keyframe the changes of text, and the repositioning would happen automatically.
  If I have misunderstood what you mean, please add some screen shots to explain what you need.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Hi username_1, I think this will also accomplish what I need to do, IVE just never had to keyframe source text before. After checking out a video on YT, it looks pretty straightforward. Thanks for the tip!  
  
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