Drop Shadow increments

Hi I am having trouble with my drop shadow increments. In a document that is 20 cm square, I have to set the drop shadow to 0.07, 0.07 and a blur of 0.08 and in a document 90 x 55 cm, the drop shadow is .2, .2 and blur .3. I thought it might be in my preferences General is cm, Stroke and Type .. Points. Using CS6.
Thanks

But while I have your attention, could you point me in the right direction for a tutorial on how to make a drop shadow lie over like this
I have googled this but all tutorials are for older software, I am using cs6 or they are not relevant to my needs.
Thanks!

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>
> I'm trying to do everything in .css from now on and any
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> be great.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> JW.
>

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