The Open Report dialog opens when you click the OfficeWriter Designer for Word's Open Report button. It allows you to open report definition files (.rdl files) that have already been created and saved. These can be reports created with OfficeWriter Designer or with other .rdl tools, such as Visual Studio. A report file contains reporting information like queries and fields along with any Word functionality you added. |
To open a report definition file saved locally:
Select the .rdl file and click Open .
You will not be able to open reports built in the Office Open XML file format (.docx) from Word 2003 |
To open a report definition file saved on the report server:
Create a Word Report From an Existing RDL
Adding a Template to an Existing Report Definition