Typing effect animation?

I did somewhat simulate the sensation but on a basic level. I can't find the file to share but essentially what i did was take a keyboard image and select the keys with a colored square. it looked like a ghost was typing and then i timed the word to appear in the set spot.

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.

Wow, that's neat, Garth!  It's not actually what I'm aiming at here, but very cool

I just want to animate the letters without keyboard interaction - like the user was watching me type.  I'm trying to spruce up a demonstration that's really just text and not visually interesting.

Zara, did you have entire words appear at once, or one letter at a time?

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

Did you ever figure out how to do this?  I need to do the same thing.  It's easy in captivate, but not so much in storyline. 

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!

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.

Hi, Gayle -- Thanks so much for stopping back in to add your suggestion to this older thread, and if you would be interested in sharing your ideas for feature requests, here is the form you would need. :)

I ran into this same thing today. I opted to use PowerPoint to create the animation and then recorded it using Replay, then added the video to my slide in Storyline. Downside is if I ever change the content I will have to re-record the animation.