At some point you right clicked a shape with a shadow and selected Set
AutoShape Defaults by accident. Select a shape without a shadow and do it
again.

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Jim
"RLang" wrote in message
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| Hi,
| I have a workbook on which the default property of embedded drawing
| shapes exhibit the shadow property in some form. While I can disable the
| shadow property on drawing shapes, this has also affected VB controls such
as
| buttons, text boxes, and labels. I can't seem to turn off the shadow
| property on these controls. When I enter VB design mode and attempt to
| change the shadow property from True to False, I receive an
error...."Unable
| to set the Shadow property of the OLEObject class." I get the same error
if
| I try from code....
| sheets("sheet2").lblTimerOnOff.shadow = false. I'm looking for help in
how
| to set the global default setting for any shapes to be "no shadow" and/or
how
| to solve the issue on an individual control element basis.
|
| Thanks much.
|