Text Shadow Effect

[DEM]

I am creating a slide, I like have done hundreds of times before. I am using
PowerPoint 2003 on a Vista machine. I have a jpg file as a background and I
am using white fonts and I am trying to put black shadows behind them. After
I highlight my text then I go to the shadow button on the formatting bar and
it is grayed out, why? I have done shadowing in the past with no problem. I
was able to shadow a horizontal line on the same slide. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for the great help I always get on this forum.

Dave

 

[Ronx]

You might get better answers in a PowerPoint forum or newsgroup. This
is for FrontPage, there is no Shadow option on the Formatting toolbar.

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[vey]

there is no Shadow option on the Formatting toolbar.

Thank heavens! Shadowed text lost it's "cool" factor yonks ago. I esp
like it when the shadows fall in different directions -- now that Really
Cool!!!

 

[David Berry]

Or using a graphics program to create shadowed text