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I have always been able to add glitter to words, but now when I get to the final steps (just prior to and including OUTPUT), the glitter does not animate as it should. I get just the color added. What is happening?

Did you follow through to the output? It won't always show the animation until you get to the end.

Your FINAL STEPS in OUTPUT should be executed in this order:

If you used a .JPG base image, your output in file format is also checked on .JPG by default.

Change and checkmark it under .GIF

Also add a DELAY number (1-100) and set the loop to "0" (zero).

That should basically do it.

WARNING WARNING... do not use 0 (zero) as a delay in an image unless you mean "don't show that frame".

Flame ON!

A zero delay frame is very bad as it should really mean 'never display this frame', though just about every GIF animator adds a small delay to such frames because too many people mis-use it. This mis-use causes problems for those people that do use it correctly!

Smallest valid delay should be about 3 cs (centi-seconds) which is about as fast as the video refresh rate.

For more info, on correct use of zero delay frames, and how various programs react to a animation consisting of only zero delays (real bad) see IM examples, Animation Basics, Zero Delay Intermediate Frames
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/#zero

Never save a GIF animation that has no 'delays'
Anyone using zero delay on all frames in an animation should be (add your own cultural unpleasentness here)