I am trying to get SSRS 2008 R2 to look exactly like some Word reports that the end users are producing. They have some columns (column group) that have a bottom border but each column is separated by a small space between the columns (a break in the bottom border). This is easily accomplished by in SSRS 2008 R2 a adding a column inside the group before the data column, make it small and take the bottom border off. The issue is that the end users want a single column group header above the columns that merges the cells so only one header covers the column group but the bottom borders need to align on the left and right with the child group. Now I can add a static group as a parent to the column group and that will allow me to span the column headers, if I put a bottom border on it then the top cell spans over the bottom border because the child group has a spacer column. If I could indent the border 5pts on the left in the top level cell then all would be good. I believe in Word the setting is cell margins. Thanks, MC MC

Hi MC, In reporting service, we could also set padding property to achieve this requirement just like setting cell margin in Word, right-click the textbox and press F4 button to open the property grid window, then find out the Padding property, you could set 5pt for the left padding. If I misunderstand you, please give some draft of your designed report's layout. Thanks, Challen Fu

Thank you for the response. The indentation is actually for the border. I found that the padding and indenting does not work for the border. I am trying to align the bottom borders with a border from a line above it that spans the column grouping. The problem was that the column group had a spacer between columns that did not have a bottom border. I was able to achieve the desired result by having a visibility condition on the spacer column. If the value match the last column group value then make it not visible. Thank you, Marc MC