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animation in Keynote
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If you can create an animated gif of that flashing text you can then insert that into the slide and it will loop... just make sure to uncheck "click to start".
Go into the Document tab in the Format pane and tick "Loop Slideshow".
Yes, I understand that. My recommendation was to create an animated gif of that text and then embed that in your presentation where you want that text to appear.
Let me try again. Create a new presentation (name it "flasher") with a single slide that uses the same background as your "main" presentation. Create that slide with the flashing text. Export that "flasher" presentation as a movie. Then use one of the many websites that can create animated gifs from movies and upload the flasher movie to it. The results will be a .gif that is animated.
Take that gif and place it into the slide of your "main" presentation. Resize the gif to the size of the slide. Uncheck the "click to start" on the properties of that gif. As long as that page is displayed, the text will flash.
A document can be a single slide. Or are you wanting to do this on a single slide within a multi slide Keynote?
That's the iWork-way... don't overload the individual apps with tons of features most of which aren't used by 95% of the users. With a little ingenuity, one can make these apps do far more than what seems possible on the surface.
That is one of the reasons why (unless I know that I have to share the source documents with MS Office users) I always start out creating documents with iWork.