Graphic Style to give Vector Drop Shadow

Hi all. Hope someone can help please
Im ok with Illustrator but not brilliant. What Im looking for is a Graphic Style that I can just add/load into my CS5 version of Illustrator that when I select it will give me a vector drop shadow under text
I would be able to edit the style to suit my text but struggling to create one from scratch after following write-ups and videos for the last 24hours!
Realise there are easier ways to make drop shadows but I need the drop shadow to be scaleable up to large sizes in a vector format as well as the text so would be my best solution
Hope someone can help
Many kind thanks

Hi, thanks so very much for your reply
Im finding it hard to create a "vector" drop shadow like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2lgA-zAzE4
So what I was hoping, is out there in the www there is a Graphic Style I can load into Illustrator and just apply to my text.
Im sure by trial and error I can edit the Graphic Style. Im am really only looking for a bog standard grey drop shadow.
I really dont want to use Effect - Stylize - Drop Shadow as it looks good, but I need to outline everything and it then needs to be scaleable to be used in large media like banners so need something that is completely vecor rather than raster (I think its called raster, as I said Im ok but not brilliant in Illustrator)
Many kind thanks

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