Help creating a Preset Effect

Hellos everyone, Big noob here,
Also just recently started using AE CS4
I wanted to create a effect based on these things:
Text moves from Position A to B
Text Fades as it happenes
Each word in a sentence does it at a seperate time
I managed to make the text move and fade out, but i can't make it so that it does it word by word in a sentence,
the sentence is quite long so i don't want to have to make a new layer for each word...
I just opened up a preset effect as i didn't know how to get a seperate transform effect...
Heres what i have now:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7YDZLEME
Help Appriciated

As Mylenium says, there's information here on selecting by word.
There are a bunch of examples for text animation here:
"Example and resources for text animation"
Since you just started using After Effects, I strongly recommend that you work your way through the materials here so that you have the basics, including the terminology with which to ask questions:
"Getting started with After Effects (CS4 and CS5)"

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Attached is an image which shows more or less the effect I am needing to achieve.
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn149/Jaybeedubya/FotoliaComp_635945_xs3N3VFLwPNTIOm1.j pg
I created the image above by desaturating the colour image of the man and then adding a new purple layer and selecting 'vivid light' from the layer palette drop down box. In doing this the man became purple but the white area surrounding him stayed white...I then adjusted the layers on the first layer so that the white part became purple - the final result is what you see in the attached image.
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Because with the extreme depths adding Black at least might be beneficial.
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Edited by: inspiredone on Feb 13, 2008 12:06 AM

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