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Is there a recommended day to format a form more rapidly ? Would be nice to have access to a file where I can specify these values on the fly instead of clicking around.

I am need to fomrat the Text on Text boxes Input Fields, as well as the lenght and width of these.

I am finding myself doing this for each of them individually which is very time consuming.

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Meneghino 6,949 on at

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Hi @dmarin
I am not sure this helps, but you can select more than one control at a time and you will see the common properties.
For example select all the text boxes and input boxes on a screen and you will be able to see the width property in the Studio.

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How do I do this ? I am only able to select 1 at a time.

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Meneghino 6,949 on at

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Just like in PowerPoint, you either:
1) Click on the first control and then Ctrl+Click on all other controls you want to select
2) Start in a corner, click and drag to show a dark rectangle (see screenshot below) When you let go all elements mainly in the rectangle will be selected
Please let me know if this works

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dmarin 64 on at

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no luck. This is inside a form. would that make a difference ?

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Meneghino 6,949 on at

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Ah, forms in PowerApps...
I don't use them as I find them very fiddly unless you use them out of the box and don't customise.
For any customisation I suggest you use individual controls and use the Patch and Remove functions to submit, edit and delete data.
It is really quite easy once you get the hang of a few concepts, so please write back if you are willing to try.

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Thanks for the suggestions.

I am currently using "Collect" on custom froms. Will give that a try.

Where would I use Patch ?

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Meneghino 6,949 on at

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Try this, although I am not sure what your database is:
Connect a simple table/list as data source MyTable, with a simple text field/column, MyTextColumn
Create a text input, TextInput1
Create a button and set its OnSelect property to:
Patch(MyTable, Defaults(MyTable), {MyTextColumn: TextInput1.Text})
This will create a new record in your table
Assuming your table auto-generates an ID then you can create another TextInput2 and another button and set its OnSelect property to:
Patch(MyTable, {ID: Value(TextInput2.Text)}, {MyTextColumn: TextInput1.Text})
This will edit the record identified by the ID in TextInput2
Please let me know how you get on.

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dmarin 64 on at

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How would this work for drop down lists ?

I don't seem to be able to associate control "Drop Down LIst" with My Sharepoitn "Choice Type" Column ?

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I guess the answer to this is that power apps will reference the contents of the list and not the properties on the SP column.

In my case, I can just create another list.

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Hi Dmarin,

About the issue to format the controls inside a form, it seems that we are not able to format all the controls at a time. Just as you said, we need to format each of them individually.

May I suggest you submit an idea at PowerApps ideas Forum about this issue, other customers who have the same request would vote your idea at here:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/idb-p/PowerAppsIdeas

Best regards,
Mabel Mao

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