For examples of using an expression on the Source Text property to animate text to overcome some of the limitations of the Numbers effect, see these posts by Rick Gerard on the Adobe user-to-user forums: www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_rickcountingexpression1 and www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_rickcountingexpression2. Colin Brailey provides a tutorial and example project that show how to use an expression on the Source Text property and a null control layer to achieve a similar result: www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_colincountingexpression.

• Example: Animate characters with per-character 3D properties
• Example: Offset characters
• Example: Animate characters with the Wiggly selector
• Example: Animate text tracking
• Example: Use selectors to animate specific words
• Example: Create a write-on animation
• Example: Animate text with multiple selectors
• Example: Animate text position with expressions
• Example: Animate text as a timecode display