Editing text that includes dynamic effects

In this movie, I'll show you how to edit text that has gradients and…dynamic effects assigned to it, because it can be a really painfully slow process.…For example, let's say my client comes to me and tells me…our product is not called Black Chat, it's called Black Cat Chat.…So, I press the T key in order to get my Type tool.…Click in front of the C in chat, and then I type CAT Spacebar from the keyboard.…And at first I just see a C, and then finally the…AT Spacebar comes up onscreen. That delay is caused by the drop shadow.…So, the solution especially, because now I have to change the character formatting.…

The solution is to go ahead and turn that shadow off until my changes are finished.…So I'll go ahead and press the Escape key in order…to accept my changes and switch back to the Black Arrow tool.…And then I'll go over to the Appearance panel.…I can see that my type object is active, but I don't see any drop shadow…in this list here, and that's because the effect is assigned to the group.…So I need to double-click on the group item there in order to switch…