Text animation in Impress

Tried to get line by line animation with mouse click from a text box. Worked when testing but after save and close then re-open the animation doesn’t work. Tried to do same but with 1 second delay automatic reveal line by line. Same problem. I’m very familiar with doing this with PowerPoint. Seems to be a problem of saving the animation with Impress.
Also tried embedding an .avi video. That didn’t work at all.
Also takes a long time to save.
My version is 5.2.3.3