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Inherit Item’s Opacity: Check this to have the drop shadow reflect different ●
opacities in the item, such as differences in the box background and border.
Item Knocks Out Drop Shadow: Check this to prevent a shadow from ●
displaying through semi-opaque areas of an item — to keep a shadow from
peeping through its box, for example.
Runaround Drop Shadow: Check this to include a drop shadow with the text ●
wrap contour specified in the Runaround tab. The runaround Outset value is
measured from the edges of the drop shadow. For example, if text is
wrapping around a rectangular pull-out quote with a drop shadow, text will
not overlap the drop shadow when Runaround Drop Shadow is checked.
To create text with a drop shadow, put the text in a box with a background of 
None, and apply the drop shadow to the box.
When you apply drop shadows to several non-grouped items, the items can 
cast shadows on each other if they overlap. When you apply a drop shadow
to a group, however, the group as a whole casts a single shadow.
Item Find/Change
You can use the Item Find/Change palette (Edit > Item Find/Change) to perform
find-change operations on text boxes, picture boxes, no-content boxes, lines,
and text paths. You can find and change attributes including location, shape,
color, opacity, border style, picture scale, number of columns, and more.