Typing effect animation?

I've been able to simulate the effect by inserting a line break (hit enter) between each line, then animate the text box to wipe from the left "By Paragraph" so that each line wipes in separately.  It's not perfect since each letter doesn't pop in as a unit but rather wipes in, but it's really close for the minimal effort required.  Add a typing audio track and I don't think anyone would notice the difference.

I cannot believe that PowerPoint right now has so much more flexibility for animations and content smoothing. You would think that Articulate costing roughly $1400 would have some better control over animations and course quality improvements.

One way I accomplished this was by adding the Wipe animation to the text box, from left to right. Set the duration to a fairly slow speed (mine was 2 seconds). Then add a typing sound effect. It's not perfect, but it's quick and easy, and if you're simply looking for that typing effect on screen, this should do the trick.  I'm still really surprised that they haven't added this feature into SL2.

Here is one that changes the state of the letters when the corresponding letters on the keyboard are pressed.  This a little thought, you could make this into a hangman game, too

Not sure if you want that or you want to animate the letters appearing without a keyboard interaction.

The layer I created uses the timeline to staggger the appearance of the letters if you want the latter.

I had a simple message so I did one letter at a time with an animation of "appear". 

Here's one - you have to do it by animating one letter at a time as Zara has suggested.

Sorry, Daryl,  I never found a scalable way to do this, beyond one painful text box per letter!

I was looking for the same thing. This "type" animation is built into Keynote. I guess since it is not included in Storyline I can create the animation in Keynote, export to quicktime and then import to Storyline. This animation should be built into Storyline.

This was an inelegant solution, but it did the job for me. I created a screen recording of me typing in MIcrosoft Word. I sized the capture window as small as I could. Storyline created a video slide from the recording. I then opened the video slide, copied the screen capture itself, and pasted it where I needed it. I then cropped the video a bit to fit it to the right size. A little extra work, but overall it was fairly simple.

Glad that this was able to help you as well LaShondra - thanks for popping in to share.