When you place a report item on the design surface, it has a default size and shape and an initial relationship to all other report items.You can place report items inside other report items to create more complex report designs. You can place data regions with different sets of data, or even the same data in different formats, side-by-side. You can interactively position, expand, and contract the initial shape of the report item using snap lines and resizing handles. Page LayoutWith Reporting Services, you can place report items anywhere on the design surface. The Rectangle can also be a container for other report items.A report can also contain subreports. The Line and Rectangle report items provide simple graphical elements on the report page. A Text Box report item contains either simple text like a title or an expression that can include references to built-in fields, report parameters, or dataset fields. When the report is processed, the data region expands across and down the report page to display data.Other report items link to and display a single item. Table, Matrix, List, Chart, and Gauge are data region report items that each link to a report dataset.
Report ItemsReport items are layout elements that are associated with different types of report data. When you export a report to a different file format, especially for renderers such as the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) renderer that uses pagination based on the physical page size, you might need to change the layout of your report to have the exported report look and print correctly after the rendering rules are applied.Getting the best results for exported reports is often an iterative process you author and preview the report in Report Builder or Report Designer, export the report to the preferred format, review the exported report, and then make changes to the report. Each renderer has applies rules when rendering reports. The exported report can then be used for further analysis in Excel or as a data source for applications that can import and use CSV files.Reporting Services includes a set of renderers for exporting reports to different formats. You can then export the report to different formats such as Excel or comma-delimited (CSV) files. 7 minutes to read.In this articleRead about Reporting Services rendering extensions for paginated reports so you're sure your report looks the way you want, including page layout, page breaks, and paper size.When you view reports in a Reporting Services report server or the preview pane of Report Builder or Report Designer, the report is first rendered by the HTML renderer.
Page Layout and Rendering (Report Builder and SSRS).