Office 2007

Excel 2007 (up through SP3)

Excel and Word 2007 SP2 or SP3

Office 2010

Excel 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit)

Excel and Word 2010 (32-bit only) SP1

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 2010 Tools for Office runtime (VSTO)

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

Open a report (server/disk)

Prevents users from opening multiple reports at once

Users can open multiple reports at once which may lead to corrupted 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
• Supports basic parameters

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 place holders based on data sets

Supports inserting data markers (Excel)

Supports inserting data markers (Excel), merge fields (Word) and defining repeat blocks (Word)

Native query builder

Not currently supported

Available through MS Query integration

Modifying data sets in Visual Studio or Report Builder

Safe actions: 

• Add or remove data sets
• Rename data sets

Safe actions: 

• Add new data sets

Modifying fields in queries in Visual Studio or Report Builder

Safe actions: 

• Add or remove fields
• Rename fields

Safe actions: 

• Add new data sets

Shared data sources

• Fully supports RDLs that store absolute paths to shared data sources (i.e. RDLs created in Report Builder 3.0). 
• When publishing RDLs that only contain the shared data source name (i.e. RDLs created in Visual Studio) to a new folder on the server, it may be necessary to update the reference to the shared data source through Report Manager.
• Unable to View reports created from shared data sources in Visual Studio.

Correctly handles shared data sources with absolute and relative paths stored in the RDL

Report Models

Not currently supported

Supported

Formulas/expressions defined in Visual Studio or Report Builder

Not currently supported

Not currently supported. * 

OfficeWriter Designer provides a limited set of similar formulas that are exclusively visible in the Designer. 

See Backwards Compatibility for OfficeWriter Reporting Services formulas for more information.

Open from a report library

Not currently supported

SharePoint 2007 supported

Save to a report library

Not currently supported

SharePoint 2007 supported