Seemingly Simple Animation Needed

I have 3 words displayed on one slide. I simply want two of them to disappear and the third one to move to the center.
Making the two disappear is easy. I can't figure out how to make the third one slide to the center afterward. I'm using KN2. Can this be done in KN3?
More sophisticated animation capabilities would be nice - like being able to have an object follow a path.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Steve

I have 3 words displayed on one slide. I simply want
two of them to disappear and the third one to move to
the center.
Well, as it turns out, where there's a will, there's a way. It's not an ideal solution, but I simply repositioned the word on subsequent slides with the slide transition set to automatic and no delay. This simulates movement across the slide. The movement is not smooth, but you can play with transition effects to make it interesting.

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> In response to the image swap. I did think of this, but
someone told me
> once
> that this is done using Java, and that a lot of people
have there Java
> turned
> off. But again maybe I am wrong about this.
You are confused about this. Image swapping is usually done
using
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> In response to the CSS solution, where would i pop the
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> only
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> can
> only generally code using the code window, but maybe
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modification
suggestion.
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> In response to the CSS solution, where would i pop the
bit of code? The
> only
> CSS I have done, is by use the built in menues in
Dreamweaver. And if I
> can
> only generally code using the code window, but maybe
this is where I type
> it in.
>
> In response to the image swap. I did think of this, but
someone told me
> once
> that this is done using Java, and that a lot of people
have there Java
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> off. But again maybe I am wrong about this.
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