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Moving a layer using a timeline animation:
The most common kind of timeline animation involves moving a layer along a path.
Timelines can move only layers.

1 To make images or text move, create a layer using the Insert>Layout Object>Layer button
on the Insert bar and then insert images, text, or any other type of content in the layer.

To animate a layer using a timeline:
1 Move the layer to where it should be when the animation begins.
2 Choose Window > Others > Timelines.
3 Select the layer you want to animate.

Make sure you have selected the desired layer.
Click the layer marker or the layer selection
handle, or use the Layers panel to select a layer.
When a layer is selected, handles appear around
it.
Clicking inside the layer places a blinking insertion point inside the layer, but it does not
select the layer.

4 Choose Modify > Timeline > Add Object to Timeline or simply drag the selected layer into the
Timelines panel.
A bar appears in the first channel of the timeline. The name of the layer appears in the bar.

5 Click the keyframe marker at the end of the bar. It is a small blue dot which turns to white.

6 Move the layer on the page to where it should be at the end of the animation.
A line appears showing the path of the animation in the Document window.

7 If you want the layer to move in a curve, select its animation bar and Control-click (Windows)
or Command-click (Macintosh) a frame in the middle of the bar to add a keyframe at the
frame you clicked, or click a frame in the middle of the animation bar and choose Add
Keyframe from the context menu. (Found top right hand corner of the timeline window).
Repeat this step to define additional keyframes.

8 Hold down the Play button to preview the animation on the page.

Repeat the procedure to add additional layers and images to the timeline and to create a more
complex animation.