Activity › Forums › Adobe After Effects Expressions › including external text file in an expression Adobe After Effects Expressions including external text file in an expression Dan Ebberts replied 15 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 11 Replies Dan Ebberts May 17, 2010 at 9:01 pm Ah, OK – I get in now. The variable names in your text file are supposed to match the names of the various text layers which all get the same expression and read the same file. Dan Page 2 of 2 ← 1 2 Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up Public All Members My Connections Only Me PublicAll MembersMy ConnectionsOnly Me Public All Members My Connections Only Me Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up