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  • Shared data sources
  • Reporting formulas
  • Word
  • Report Models
  • SharePoint
  • Backwards compatibility with OfficeWriter Reporting Services formulas
  • Query builder
  • Backwards compatibility with RDLs created from MS Query integration

Feature/Functionality 

OfficeWriter Designer .NET

OfficeWriter Designer

PLATFORM

 

 

Office 2007

Excel 2007 (up through SP3)

Excel and Word 2007 

Office 2010

Excel 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Excel and Word 2010 (32-bit only)

Office 2013

Excel 2013 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Excel and Word 2013 (32-bit only)

System requirements

.NET 4.0 or higher\ Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime (VSTO)

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)\ MS Query\ Latest Microsoft service pack\ Security Bulletain MS-012-060

SSRS SUPPORT

 

 

SSRS 2005

Not supported

RDLs created in VS 2005 supported.

SSRS 2008 (R2)

RDLs created in Visual Studio 2008/2010, Report Builder 3.0

 

SSRS 2012

 

 

BASIC FUNCTIONALITY

 

 

Open a report (server/disk)

Prevents users from opening multiple reports at once

Users can open multiple reports at once which often corrupts reports

Save a report (server/disk)

Defaults to XLSX. Remembers last-saved file format.

Defaults to XLS for each save. Does not remember last-saved file format.

View

  • Does not require an RDL to be open in the Designer .NET to view
  • Supports selecting multiple values and cascading parameters in addition to basic parameters
  • Requires an RDL to be open in the Designer to view a particular report

Import a template

Supported

Supported in Excel and Word

Report properties

Available in the toolbar

Can only be edited when saving to disk

Insert data markers

Supports \

Supported