Control Text Shadow in Publisher 2003

According to the Help Topics for Publisher 2003, you can create text
shadows either by selecting the text and checking the shadow box in the
"Format -- Font.." menu (in which case you have no control over the
shadow) or by selecting the UNFILLED text box and clicking on a shadow
style in the toolbar (in which case you supposedly have control over
the shadow's attributes). There is even a sample in the help topic that
shows the difference. However, whenever I select a text box, set the
Fill property to "No Fill" and then choose a shadow style from the
Shadow toolbar, Publisher automatically changes my text box's Fill
attribute from "No fill" to "White", and then shadows the entire
rectangular text box, not just the individual letters contained within
the text box. If I then go to the Properites page for the text box and
select "No Fill" after Publisher changes this to "White", I get no
shadow at all, even though a shadow style still shows as selected in
the shadow toolbar. Can anyone help me?