.. well … it's as straightforward as in InDesign. Select text; select “stroke” rather than “fill”, then change the color …

ha… thanks for your kindness on the issue of adding a stroke to text (not laughing me out of the forum). I was actually speaking specifically of the OUTER text stroke in “Illy” (hope you don't mind of I borrow that phrase :)). There's a grayed out option in the stroke window, which is available for other shapes, but not for text. It's also not available if I choose a dashed line with the option where the corner is even all the way around (not sure if there's a special name for that setting, it's the one on the right). I'm using CS5 on a Mac. Maybe other versions are different. Anyways, InDesign seems to make the stroke on the outside, center or inside of text just fine.