Originally Posted by JohnWilson

The shadow feature changed in 2007.



You will almost certainly have a shadow on the SHAPE with text. You can remove this in any version after 2007 and it should then work. If you want a shadow add it again to the TEXT

I noticed you have posted this same question in other forums. You should mention this and when you have a solution go back and let people know. Otherwise people could be working on your problem when it is already solved.