Gradients on Text

Howza bout allowing gradients on text without outlining it first?
Seems like that should be standard.
Also, how about some inner glow effect?

Markocheese - I agree with you. Ai is the king of clicking and thinking this must be changed because the frustration is growing. Gradient should also automatically use the Foreground and background colors if you have not chosen a set of swatches. It also seems to be completely incomprehensible to engineers Ai. Intuitive in terms of job Ai not evolved as much as one year from its first version. The idea of pallets Appearance it seems to me crucial and far-ordering control over promises.
Understand however, how could such a mess and it is not fine-tune utility. But I do not understand how it could break and so do not refined the usefulness of the graphics work.
- Number of clicking is the worst
- lack of transfer function to copy and drag each other obikety Appearance is the pinnacle of laziness etc.
Sometimes I think that the only graphic designer who uses Ai am I alone
P.S.
None gradients of this outline is the most annoying! (Because giving a gradient fill to text using the Appearance can do with pain and not intuitive)

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Check this out :http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/gradient-text/
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web.boards,
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Thanks both of you. This worked.
However, now whenever I add a gradient to text I have to always do it by going to the appearance panel and adding a new fill there to get the gradient to show up at all. Simply selecting the gradient button with the text selected, or selecting a preset gradient from swatches now does nothing, the text remains black.
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Zeno Thanks for your answer. It lead me to more investigation. I suspect that my question was too broad.
Your links pointed me to the C4 online manual. As I am using CS3 I went looking for the CS3 manual. Both the CS3 & CS4 user manuals can be downloaded in PDF format or viewed on line Following is the online and PDF links:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/10.0/photoshop_cs3_help.pdf
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/photoshop_cs4_help.pdf
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/10.0
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/
In the more like section off to the rignt side I found the following link to a site which talke about using Gradients on text which I found helpful
http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/65/1/Graffiti-Text
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