[Peter Bentley]

Thanks Ken! I did not know about either of those, and learned a bit more from these links (for anyone who might stumble on this thread down the line):

Video about grouping shapes within a shape layer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-j8qS8LwtU

How to add a stroke to a pre-comp:
https://blog.motionisland.com/stroke-a-composition-in-after-effects/#.XGWmLc9KjUI

I think I’m going to go with the latter. Thanks again for the help!

Peter

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[Peter Bentley]

Yep. Thanks for your thoughts on that thread. I actually ended up creating a handful of layers in Illustrator that I cycle through by changing opacity in After Effects. But for this case Dave’s solution probably would have been the best: just create keyframes on the text field’s source text and cycle through in that way since text changes create hold keyframes.