I tried that and it didn’t work properly. Here’s a quote from my other reply with the details of what I did and the results:
“I also tried deleting everything but the segments I want stretched together, saving that as another project, loading the original project, deleting the original text segments, sliding the rest of the project left several seconds, and drag n drop that 2nd project back onto it. This seemed to accomplish my goal of linking the segments together for the sake of “stretching” supposedly, BUT when I stretched it it didn’t actually slow it down it just made it loop! As if that isn’t bad enough, also one of the zoom effects got screwed up by this so now its zoomed so far on the text you can hardly read it…”