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This property applies only to controls generated from XSD schema elements. (If the control was dragged in from the palette, it has a Control Type property).
Use the Display As property to change the way your control looks on your form (for example, To change a text control to a dropdown, select dropdown from the list of allowable controls). This will change the control's appearance but will not affect how the control validates data. If you need to modify the control's validation behavior, you must update the schema. See Data Sources for further information. The Display As property is not available for the following schema controls: Message, Repeat, Date, Time, Date/Time, T/F.
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