Quote Originally Posted by John Wilson View Post
PS TextUnitEffect is legacy code from pre 2007 versions + it's not a good idea to use Shape /Slide etc for object variables of the same type - it will soon lead to confusion.
Thanks for your comments John!

Argh! So there is no way of achieving what I'm trying to do? It's so basic I would have thought I'd be a piece of cake. Shame PPT doesn't have a macro record tool, what usually do is (after selecting text placeholder)

Apply Fade In
Effect Options > Appear by paragraph

I've tried asking Chat GPT, but its code is worse than mine!