Drop Shadow possible within a paragraph style?

I have a table and on a certain row I have a style that requires a dropdown. I have made a paragraph style that has everything perfect but I can't find the drop shadow option there. Is it possible to include drop shadow effects as a style?

I've found this frustrating too.
The way I get around it is as follows:
1: Create a Text Frame and type the text to be shadowed.
2: Select the Text Frame and choose Window > Effects.
3: Expand the Object list and select just the text in the list.
4: Click the fx dropdown and apply any effects you want to associate with the text.
5: Feel free to save this as an Object Style to use again.
Now the the part that will have old-school QuarkXpressers squirming...
6: Select the whole text frame, choose Edit > Cut.
7: ... and paste it into another text frame as an Anchored Object.
8: You can then create a Paragraph Style to control the position/placement of the Anchored object.
9: ... and even add some Text Wrap and offset to your Object Style.
I know it is a filthy workaround, but it is the only way I can find to achieve the required result.
Please, Adobe, can we have effect styles that can be applied as part of Paragraph Styles. I mean, there's a precedent : Character styles as part of Paragraph Styles, Table Styles containing Cell Styles that contain Paragraph Styles that could ostensibly contain Nested Styles.....

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GREP Question: Style em spaces that precede only certain triggers within a paragraph

Hello,
Up front:
I do not know GREP well enough to begin to tackle this. And as usual, I'm in a pinch!
Also, if you're the visual type, just look at the second to the last paragraph at the bottom, and that may be enough to help you devise the GREP style. Otherwise, bear with me, I have to think this through...
I have a list that spans pages of events. The events are formatted as follows:
☐Box City EventNameSpecific Month EndPara (this is a single paragraph in a story of a hundred such paragraphs)
On paper, each event will need to be preceded with a filled specific-colored box (☐). I would like this box to be made from a strikethrough applied to an em space using grep, since that is very easy to create using a character style and only requres one setting (the thickness of the strikethrough).
There is a legend at the bottom of the page, detailing about 14 types of events. Some of the different types of events will require the same colored box. But in all I have 7 different colors of boxes in the legend.
I'm looking to create...
7 character styles, one for each color (consider this done already)
1 paragraph style (essentially done, but missing the GREP)
7 GREP styles (or more as necessary) specifically to apply only to the em space that precede specific sets of text strings
If I need, or if it is simpler to create 14 GREP styles within the paragraph style, that's fine. But I understand we may be able to do something like this... (Target phrase 1 | Target phrase 2 | Target phrase 3) in between parenthesis to identify multiple possible triggers within the same rule.
I'm fine whether it's 7 or 14 rules in there, I just want to be able to update them over the course of time as necessary - but it won't be for another season at least if I do.
I don't know GREP well enough to piece together what I need. Vaguely familiar with look aheads and look behinds. I do understand it may be easier if the em space is in between other characters, so in my example below I've inserted hairspaces. But ultimately I want the em space to be flush or nearly flush to the left of the frame.
For my example below:
I only want to apply character styles to em dashes based on the strings in bold.
The strings of text that will trigger the GREP will vary in number of words and may or may not contain a dash.
I want to ignore Citynames regardless of number of words... Chicago vs. San Francisco vs. Vancouver, BC for example.
I want to ignore MonthofYear which appears after the second tab.
The tabs will have set stops as a regular part of the paragraph style. I'm including them in my example below in case it helps to visualize possible anchors to use in GREP.
I want the style to be easy enough to modify, for example if I want to simply add an (EEEE New Eventname) to the list of possible options within a rule that triggers a specific character style. See below should make it clearer.
So here's what I'm thinking...
Within the Paragraph Style, the first two examples of GREP Styles should be able to respond to the following criteria:
Rule 1: If the paragraph contains any of the following, then apply Char Style 1 to the em dashes in those paragraphs. Use a unique GREP expression for each phrase below where each uses Char Style 1 or use a single GREP expression to capture all three possible triggers:
ABC BB Invitational
ABC Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ABC MM-Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Rule 2: If the paragraph contains any of the following, then apply Char Style 2 … and so on
Global ABC Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Global WXYZ Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I cannot count on “ABC” or “Global” being the trigger for the style, if you know what I mean. I need the entire phrase (ABC BB Invitational) to be the trigger… if it exist in its entirety, then apply the style to the preceding em dash in that paragraph. This way if there are any mispellings or if we launch a new event type which ends up flowing in to my document I will know it.
hairspace emspace tabspace CitynameOneWord ABC BB Invitational tabspace MonthofYear
hairspace emspace tabspace Cityname TwoWrds ABC BB Invitational tabspace MonthofYear
hairspace emspace tabspace Cityname MultiWrds ABC BB Invitational tabspace MonthofYear
hairspace emspace tabspace Cityname TwoWrds ABC MM-Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx tabspace MonthofYear
hairspace emspace tabspace Cityname MultiWrds ABC Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx tabspace MonthofYear
hairspace emspace tabspace Cityname TwoWrds Global ABC Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tabspace MonthofYear
hairspace emspace tabspace CitynameOneWord Global WXYZ Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tabspace MonthofYear
hairspace emspace tabspace CitynameOneWord Global Special Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tabspace MonthofYear
hairspace emspace tabspace CitynameOneWord Globl Special WRONG SPELLING tabspace MonthofYear
I hope this makes sense and isn't too unnecessarily redundant. Time for bed. Fingers crossed someone will post at least one GREP string, so I have some magic code for tomorrow morning! Ideally, it would be great if you would include a brief explanation of waht the string is doing, but minimally, please do use one of my text stings above, so I know what to mess with and what not to. ;-)
<says prayer>
Thanks!
Rick

Well, for a moment I thought I had an idea of how to do this with GREP styles, but I realized it wouldn't work, and I'm not sure it's possible unless you are able to make a separate style for every possible string between the em space and the trigger text. You want to use the lookahead because you want to find that text, but you don't want to select it or apply the style to it, but a lookahead can't handle the kind of variability on string length that you need to work based on just the bolded text at the end.
It would actually be easier to use paragraph styles based on the bolded text that include a nested character style, I think. That could be handled by find change, but I think the best thing is probably to move this over to scripting.
Rather than just move the discussion, though, I'm going to ask you to cross post so there are two threads on the chance that someone else who doens't visit scripting might have another idea for you here.
Here's a link to scripting: InDesign Scripting

Modify drop shadow layer style

In PS5 is it possible to modfy a drop shadow layer style changing it's color and opacity without changing the entire layer?

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Noel - the issue I encountered was that when I double clicked on the active layer and was presented with the default layer style dialog that did not show the color picker option and then selected drop shadow, I did not see the color picker to the right of the blending options.
As others have pointed out, unless there is some information missing in your problem description, you are observing normal and expected behavior. To clarify with screenshots what Noel and others have said above:
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Quick paragraph style application transformation ... or reverse engineering a document the hard way?

Hi everyone,
I'm using Indesign 5.5 for Windows and have inherited a technical document with no styling applied (not even text threads or auto-pagination), but all the fonts are in the correct sizes and colours. So it looks ok in print, but trying to actually do anything with it is a nightmare. For obvious reasons I WANT to apply paragraph styles to the document so I can generate a new auto-updating TOC, maintain and add to it, and all the other good stuff that means.
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It is possible to create paragraph styles with properties that behave crazily when they do what you define for them. For example, you can define a paragraph style that sets the style of the paragraph that's created when you press Enter/Return. You can also use the smartness built into the Next Style property. If a paragraph style, say Head1 is defined to create a new paragraph when you press Enter/Return, it can also apply its next style property to the paragraph follows Head1 in the same text selection. So, if you select a paragraph that's supposed to become Head1 (which defines its next style as BodyAfterHead1) and also select the paragraph that follows it, and then hold down Ctrl+Click on the Head1 style's name in the Paragraph Styles panel, Apply "Head1" then Next Style appears. If BodyAfterHead1 defines Body as its next style, and more than two consecutive paragraphs are selected, Head1 will be applied to the first paragraph, BodyAfterHead1 will be applied to the second paragraph, and Body will be applied to the third and following paragraphs.
So, you'll be investing in setting up the Next Style property for paragraph styles, and selecting as many consecutive paragraphs as needed for applying a pattern of styles that agrees with your next style definitions. Each time you use this feature, you're collecting benefits from your investment.
If you need to reproduce the look of the layout on some number of pages, you could export to PDF and use a script to efficiently place each page of a multi-page PDF on a "PDF layer" you create, that appears on every document page in the ID document, lock and move the layer below the active document layer, and use it as a placement underlay.
Search Google for terms like "InDesign apply style and next style," "InDesign place multipage pdf script," "InDesign installing and using scripts," "InDesign paragraph style keep options," and "InDesign start paragraph options," without quotes, for informative links to anywhere on the Web, as well as on these Adobe forums. To limit the searches to Adobe forums only, include "forums.adobe" without quotes in the search query.
HTH
Regards,
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How to handle paragraph styles in imported text with no tagged paragraph styles

Hi
Im currently trying to import a file (word file / excel I have both formats) into an indesign book and formatting the text automatically!
My question is: How is it possible to reflow text into frames and when changing frame it changes paragraph?
Or how is it possible to change paragraph style when forcing a line break when using text reflow?
I have already figured out how to reflow the text, and actually also managed to relow text into the frames and change paragraph style. I know how to use the keep option, and by this change the paragraph style when e.g. changing frame break/page break etc. (but if the content being flowed-in is not tagged with style names then I cannot figure out how to do it) The document and its content I whish to import do not have any tagged paragraphs!
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If any of you have a hint, I would be more than happy to hear from you
This picture are illustrating the outcome I would to get to....

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Using the number paragraph style.

Hi Guys
Just wondered if there is a way when applying the numbering within the paragraph styles to choose a format that does not put a full stop after the number
i.e current the number would read
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I would just like to have
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Open paragraph style options dialog.
Choose Bullets and Numbering category.
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Drop shadow for images

I've done this easily in Photoshop CS3 but now I'm trying to teach people with Elements 6 or 7 how to add a drop shadow to their images. The help menu seems to think that I would add it only to text.
When I follow the procedure with an image open, nothing happens.
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Thanks.
Mary Lou

Mary Lou,
To add a drop shadow to the entire picture:
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http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1bxVVZCr9XHbMWpqGLbFyTNkpdVsma1
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http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1fUAf62zQNztHfAbEOjTg8DSGaltBl0
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In InDesing properly styled looks like this:
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It sounds like your tab characters are actually disappearing from content in the XML. Jeff was responding to the fact that they need to be there, and you state that you originally had them in your document, but they are not showing up once imported through the XML.
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<sentencetag>	<numbertag>1</numbertag>	The dog runs fast</sentencetag>.
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Drop shadows can only be applied to all text within a Frame. You will need to separate the paragarphs you want a drop shadow from and Anchor those within the text.
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Nice of you to be doing this for your Mother's Thesis.
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Not sure if this would solve your requirment but just in case might be helpful:
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In line 18 below, "1st:passage" may be wrong... so I've tried and search for an hour, but I can't get the answer..
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Replace the red line with… Replacing name strings to yours…
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