Text builds in KN3

I am trying to attain a number of build effects in Keynote. Basically what I’m trying to do is very similar to this clip
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/xpsnb2?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s= dhs
(I know its Dell, and doesn’t even look that good, but its the effects I’m concerned with).
I am currently using a slide with a text large box for the body of the text. The words I want to appear first are in separate text boxes. Here are my issues:
Firstly, is this the best way to do such a build?
Secondly, I would like the individual words to come in one by one (unlike in the Dell preso). The Build Inspector only seems to give me the option of “other bullets”. What’s the best way to achieve the desired build.
Thirdly, I can’t figure out how to transit the colour of the “stand out” words to the body text colour.
Fourthly, how do I make a word “blink”.
Any help much appreciated (and don’t hold the Dell thing against me).
Cheers,
Reb
12" Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

It sounds like the "text boxes" you are using are bullet boxes instead, judging from what the Build Inspector is telling you -- regular text boxes should not produce that option.
Apart from that, it sounds like you have the appropriate way to approach it -- create the block of text first, then create separate text boxes for each of the words, and line them up with the words in the full text. If you don't group the text boxes that the individual words are in, you should be able to build each of them separately. To fade the individual words into the full text, I would do a dissolve for the build-out of the individual words simultaneous with a dissolve build-in for the full text. This produces the effect you see in the example.
As for "blinking", I'm not sure there is a straightforward way to do this. I suppose you could make several copies of the same word, and have each appear and disappear one after the other. That's a kludge, and someone might have a better suggestion.
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