You're looking for a trigger animation.
http://www.echosvoice.com/triggers.htm has info.
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> can anyone help. Ineed to click on a a square/shape/object and have text
> appear or have another shape move in with text. Does anyone know how?
>
> but the text should only appear if a specific square was clicked on .
>