What should you do to make text transparent without affecting its drop shadow?

Changing the Fill value to 0% while keeping the opacity value at 100% allows you to make the text itself transparent without impacting any layer styles applied, such as a drop shadow. This method enables the text to become invisible, but since opacity affects both the layer itself and its effects, maintaining the opacity at 100% ensures that the drop shadow remains visible and intact.

For example, if you set the opacity of the layer to 0%, both the text and the drop shadow would disappear, resulting in a lack of desired visual effect. Removing the shadow layer would eliminate the drop shadow entirely, and converting the text layer into a smart object does not directly address the requirement to create transparency in the text itself without losing the effects. Thus, adjusting the Fill value specifically meets the goal of maintaining the drop shadow while making the text transparent.