3D effects window allows diversifying appearance of the text in four different ways: Lowered, Outlined, Raised, And Shadowed. It is possible to view occurred result in Demo text.
Property Outline Color works only if an effect with outline was selected earlier similar to Shadow color that works only if the effect Shadow was selected.
It is also possible to place a text not commonly straight, but to rotate it to any desired degree. Rotation - is a corresponding parameter of that action.