Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step

Exporting Reports

Online report access is a common way to provide information to a wide variety of users, but sometimes users need to view information when they are disconnected from the network or they want to use the information in different ways. They might need to share information from a report in an e-mail, or they might want to analyze report data by using a spreadsheet. Users might want to use a report as a mechanism for retrieving corporate data that they then can import into a document for rich formatting. They might want to share report information in a print-ready paginated file or they might simply need access to raw data to import into another application. Reporting Services includes seven different rendering formats as alternatives ...