How to Animate Text

I am trying to figure how to animate a stroke (like the one in Photoshop, under layer styles) in after effects. Basically I am trying to make the text appear from the inside and grow outward. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you're trying to match the behavior of layer styles in Photoshop, just use the same layer styles in After Effects.

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check the text animation effects presets in Bridge (see the help system on how to do that). There might just be one.
Learning to use the animators on text layers is confusing and nonintuitive but no impossible. Just takes patience and lots of errors. Really, it will take you ten minutes to figure this out or, if you're more like me, a few years. But the help system has everything need to know and several useful links to online tutorials for animating text.
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Make the text layers layers 3D. Orient them all to the camera. Parent them to a 3D null. Rotate the null and the text will now move around as it does in your sample video.
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I need to change the words in a musical score because the font is too small. OCR recognition doesn"t work because there are illustrations that are different from images or text... Is there a way to get in there and make the changes I need to do?
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