Trouble with applying outer glow to text

Question

Hello,I am trying to make some text stand out from the background (a photo in a separate frame behind the text). I thought I would apply Outer Glow to the text. The dialog box acts oddly though. For example, sometimes the glow only shows up when I have preview **unchecked***, and goes away when I have preview checked. And I'm confused about the difference between object and text. In order to get to the dialog box I select the text box, then go to Object, Effects, Outer Glow. Then I always have to uncheck the Object outer glow check box, and go to Text. But the text dialog box doesn't seem to work properly, or is erratic. If I check Object, then it applies an outer glow to the text, but not to the text box, which I presume is the Object.  Is this happening because I just don't understand how to use this properly, or is this a glitch?Many thanks for any help!

Bill Silbert · Answer

I found that it does, indeed work the way that you said. I am using CC 2018 InDesign on an iMac with El Capitan. The screen shot below shows something even more puzzling:

In both cases in my composite screen shot the outer glow affects the text and not the object. But notice that the example on the right which has the "Text" setting has a much lighter glow than the example on the left which is set for "Object" despite the fact that all other settings are the same. To be honest whenever I've needed an outer glow around type I've just gone into this dialog without changing the "Settings for:" simply because my text got a glow on it without having to change anything. Unless anybody has a good explanation for all this I would go with it being a weird glitch.

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