I’ve got a string of text, six characters, that I’m building a logo with. Two fonts, two colors, and some variations on kerning, baseline and font size.
When I apply a shadow to it, the text becomes uneditable, and selecting it selects a little dot to the lower left of the text. If I remove the shadow from that bogus selection, then I can edit again.
I assume this is a bug?
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Can´t confirm.
To edit the text just hit “T” and make further adjustments. To leave text edit mode hit “return” key at the num pad or select any other tool.
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/2854/textshadoweffect.jpg
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So far, I’m having better luck using the Effects dialog, for which thanks.
The above is repeatable if I select the text (that is, all the characters) and apply a shadow via the Fonts dialog (cmd-T).
OTOH, via the Effects dialog, the Drop Shadow option is grayed out if I have characters selected, and is available only if I select the entire object (not in text mode).
So I think I have a workaround (need to play around some more), but a) there’s a bug and b) navigating to the Effects version of Drop Shadow is far from intuitive.
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I´m pretty sure it´s not a bug. The effects/core image/quartz engine accepts only objects. I´m not sure what you´re after. If you want different shadows per key you have to choose a different approach: Copy&paste a key, set blur/size/place and color send it backwards. Or use effects per single key text.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3472/textshadows.png
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I’ll post some screenshots later. We may mean different things by “object” here; I’m talking about the difference between selecting the text box as a whole and selecting characters within the text box.
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I know what you mean - but the “effects” don´t work while editing text - just on “text-object”. 
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