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How to Create Word Reports > Viewing Your Report

Viewing Your Report

After a report is published you can view it using the OfficeWriter Designer toolbar, or from Reporting Services Report Manager.

Viewing a Report with OfficeWriter Designer

  1. If the template for the report that you want to view is not already open in Microsoft Word:

    1. Open Word.

    2. From the OfficeWriter Designer toolbar, select Open Report.

    3. Navigate to the report definition file that you created with OfficeWriter and open it.

  2. Click the View button on the OfficeWriter Designer toolbar. The report will open in another Word window.

  3. Click Close Report View to return to your template.

Report Browsing

Another way to view a report is through Report Browsing:

  1. In Microsoft Word, close all active documents.

  2. Click the View button on the OfficeWriter Designer toolbar.

  3. Navigate to the report definition file that you created with OfficeWriter and open it.

  4. Click the View button on the OfficeWriter Designer toolbar. The report will open in another Word window.

  5. Click Close Report View to return to your template.

Viewing a Report in Reporting Services

The third way to view a report is from Reporting Services Report Manager. To do this, open your browser and navigate to the Report Manager (usually http://<ReportServer>/Reports). Navigate to your report and open it. Reports created in OfficeWriter Designer will display a message telling you to render the report using the Word (.doc) designed by OfficeWriter extension.

What you see on the screen is not the report layout as you designed it in Word using OfficeWriter. It is only a listing of the raw data returned from your report's queries. If the report definition was originally created with Visual Studio (or another tool) and modified with OfficeWriter, you will see the original layout, not the OfficeWriter layout.

To see the report as you designed it with OfficeWriter:

  1. From the Select a format drop-down list, choose Word (.doc) designed by Officewriter.



  2. Click Export.

  3. You will be prompted to save or open. To save the report as a Word file, click Save. To view the report, click Open.



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