I think you can do that.........you can move clips around in the timeline so yes you should be able to get them all working at the same time. Animator is a very good and powerful tool but it does take some practive to get it working the way you want to.

Ok, found what I need to know for apparations. So, I knew having a unique layer for each set of texts that should be displayed will work with animator. I just thought there might be a better way. I do want to move objects, like an exploded view. Except I need to move objects along specified paths, not exploding from a central point. I want to do an animation of how to assemble multiple pieces of an enclosure, with text at each step. So, I will have a separate layer that I unhide for each step, unless there's a better way. Thanks!