HI John, The Drop Shadow feature is only for Design Shop Pro+. If you were led to believe that all levels of Design Shop would get that feature and upgraded because of it, please contact your sales person and get it worked out. Now, to do a Shadow to lettering, you do not need the Shadow Button. Do some lettering on the screen, then right mouse click on it and then click on Duplicate. You will notice in the Project Tree a second Lettering Object will appear. Click on the first one and then Click on Color Change to insert a Color Change between them, then click on the one that is in the background, and then drag it on the screen to where you want it to be to give you the shadowed look and effect you wish. A little more cumbersome than clicking one button, but once you get the method down, it still only takes a few seconds to do. This is all the Shadow button does, just all at once for you with one click of the mouse. Jeff Banks Melco Embroidery Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Yaglenski" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:14 AM Subject: [amayausers] Design Shop 2005 > Question on the Letter Shaddow feature in 2005. I saw it demo'd at ISS in > Atlantic City and thought the trainer said it came with Design Shop 2005 > (thus I upgraded), but can't figure how to get it to work. Is this a Pro > or > Pro Plus only feature? If so, I have to admit I am a little bummed. > > - - - - - - - - > > > John Yaglenski > Levelbest Embroidery > > I: www.levelbestembroidery.com > P: 301.591.2481 > P: 888.229.1779 > F: 781.998.6473 > > This e-mail message and any attachments are confidential and may be > privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify > Levelbest, > immediately -- by replying to this message or by sending an e-mail to > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- and destroy all copies of this message and any > attachments. Thank you. > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.4 - Release Date: 3/27/2005 > > >