How to change default shadow color?

[handrawn]

My shadow color defaults to red, yuk!

Every time I want a shadow it is a long painful process. Click Shadow Icon > magnify to 500% > Set transparency to 0 > drag black color to reset shadow > set magnify to 100% > reset transparency back to where it was.

There has to be a better way! Why not just right click to bring up the shadow properties????

I hover the mouse over the object and hold down the ALT key and then left-click [which toggles between selecting the object or it's shadow] - can then change the colour [edit - by clicking on the colourbar for example], no need to zoom or change transparency as a matter of course

this works with XDPX [I have some registry tweaks in place, so I don't guarantee it's default behaviour, but you can try it...]