Drop Shadow Not Usable

I'm new to Illustrator and trying to simply just add a drop shadow to some various texts. It would seem to me that when you enter text, all you would have to do is highlight and the drop shadow option should be functional. However, that's not the case. Anyone know why drop shadow would be greyed out and unusable?

You have to select the text at the object level and not at the text or type level.
To do that use a selection tool such as the direct select tool as such and that drop shadow option will be available

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