I was wondering if it's possible to use the Range Selector to make it so that the effect only applies to the area it encapsulates. For example, I wrote an expression for scale that makes the characters grow to 200% and shrink back to 100%. This works nicely for the first character, but for the other...

Thanks for that info. I guess I wasn't thinking too clearly about the effects stack, as that did the trick. I've read the reasoning as to why it's not considered a perfect usable solution, but for me, it's exactly what I was looking for.

I seem to be having problems with all 3 scripts / plugins. With nab's AEX file, I get "Adobe Effects error: plug-in "(path)\TextLength.aex" could not be loaded (14001) (48 :: 46)". When I try using the JSX file, I get "Unable to execute script at line 16. After Effects error...

Thanks for the reply, I'll try to see if I can somehow make do with that plugin.

This is probably a basic question, but I wasn't able to find an answer to it even after going through most of the expressions threads. Is there a way to determine the width and height of the text in a text layer? ie. for such case as trying to move the center of an effect from the top-left corner of...