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ⓔ How to fake a drop shadow on text in apps that don’t support text drop shadows
Sometimes when placing text on a slide in a presentation, the background image can make it hard to read the text. Other times you’d like your text to stand out a little bit from the document. This is where drop shadows come in handy. Basically this trick relies on two text boxes, each with the…