HT3727 Adding a shadow to text in Pages 09

I do not have a "Shadows" button under the Fonts menu. Very frustrating as I would like to add a shadow to some text. Any suggestions?

You can click a text box to select it, and then in Inspector -> Graphic, click Shadow. The shadow controls are then live and what you choose is applied to all text in the text box.
Or:
As Jerrold says, get the cursor showing inside the text box, go to the Fonts pane and click on the T (at the left of the red-edged oval in Jerrold's picture). Having that selected will cause the shadow controls in the Graphic pane to be live for whatever text you select in the text box. That way, you can select some text and apply some shadow settings. Then you could select some other text in that text box and apply different shadow settings.
You could try to effect shadow settings just using the other controls in the Fonts Panel, but they are too small and fiddly.

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--=====
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2011/12/27
--=====
on run
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--{code}
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