Services Rendered

Export Word and (Better) Excel

I recently wrote a whitepaper highlighting a great tool by one of our partners: SoftArtisans OfficeWriter. OfficeWriter is a design tool and custom rendering extension that lets you use Excel and Word documents as report layout templates. This differs Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:01 PM by chrisbal | 3 Comments

The "Every Other Page Is Blank" Feature

Many Reporting Services users ask this question: "I'm rendering to a physical page format (PDF, Image, Print) and for some reason a blank page gets inserted between all of the other pages in the report. Thank you, Reporting Services, for the free pages. Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 6:32 PM by chrisbal | 7 Comments

Merge Ahead

One issue that continually vexes users of the SQL Server Reporting Services Excel rendering extension is that of merged cells in the Excel output. Merged cells can be a problem because Excel's sort functionality is very particular about the way cells Read More...

Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:22 AM by chrisbal | 4 Comments