Can't select drop shadow

I have a file from a client that needs to be resized to a few different dimensions. The problem I'm having is that I can select the the layer but the drop shadow doesn't get selected along with the main shape. I've cut and pasted the file into a different document and the drop shadow isn't included. When I scale the shape, the drop shadow scales incorrectly. I using CS5 Extended on a Windows 7 PC.

The Drop Shadow and other Layer Styles are effects attached to a layer, not expressed in pixels, so you should not expect them to be a part of a selection.
And normally you would not expect effects to size with the object, as they are thought of more in terms of a ficticious "light" falling on the document - for example so a whole set of different objects could maintain a consistent shadow and thus seem the same distance up from the page. I know what you're hoping for - a way to have the effects just scale with the object (though that would be tricky if the object is scaled unequally in each dimension).
There are a couple of ways I can think of to scale layer styles...
One is to scale the entire document using Image - Image Size before using it in another document, and checking the box shown here:
Another way is to, with the layer already placed and selected in the LAYERS panel, choose Layer - Layer Style - Scale Effects, and enter a new percentage. This can be more direct than changing the individual style elements manually.
Using Photoshop Help and entering "scale layer style" turns up both of the above, by the way.
One other thing I thought of that could be helpful with what you're doing is if you have other layers in the target document that already have the layer style the way you want it, you can copy just the layer styles to a newly placed layer. Just right-click on the layer with the style the way you want it and choose Copy Layer Style, then select the layer(s) you want to copy it to, right-click, then Paste Layer Style.
-Noel

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