Animated Text

  1. Insert Text on the stage.
     
  2. Select the text and Convert text to a symbol
     
  3. Select the text
     
  4. Go to Modify>
    break apart
     
  1. Go to Modify > Timeline>Distribute to Layers
 

Layers will appear for each letter

Create Motion Tweens for each Letter

   
To make text scatter    Align text in first frame, move text to positions outside the starting justification
on the 20th (example) or chosen keyframe.
 
To make text come   together    Align text in first and 20th frame.  Return to the first keyframe for each letter and scramble the text.