I was recently told SSRS does not support the ability to underline a portion of text in a sentence. Does anyone know if this is true? Couldn't "text decoration" "underline" and "span" be used to underlinethe web address in the sample sentence below? "Please visit our website at: www.abc.com" Thanks

Check out the TextDecoration property of a textbox. Note: if you want a part of the sentence to be underlined, you will have to use 2 textboxes. The same sentence cannothave different decoration. for that you will need a rich text box, which will most probably make itin the next release of SSRS ie. SQL 2008.

So when you parse the sentence at run time and store the pieces in 3 different text boxes. How do you make sure the text boxes are spaced correctly so that the sentence does not appear broken?i.e.First recordThe red cat chased the green frog.next recordThe red cat chased the green frog.Both records would need to appear as a sentence without unusual spacing.The string would be easy to split because the data is stored with <u> and </u> in the sentence to provide the underline on a webpage.Any good idea?ThanksDavid

So is there any solution to this on SSRS 2005?Here is another sample with text and data set fields combination:="Please contact " & Fields!ContactName.Value & " at " & Fields!ContactNumber.Value & ". Your call will be treated confidential".Desired result:Please contact John Smith at (123)-4567890. Your call will be treated confidential.The field lengths for ContactName varies, so we don't really know how to format it in a way that right after the last character we have to set a space and set the text box.

> So is there any solution to this on SSRS 2005?No built-in solution is available for RS 2005. The closest you can get, just in terms of text formatting, would be to implement a custom assembly or custom report item where you draw the text yourself as image and then display in the report as image. But I'd think this is probably not worth the effort.The alternative is to upgrade to RS 2008.HTH,RobertRobert Bruckner http://blogs.msdn.com/robertbruckner This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

right click the textbox -> properties then click the Fomt Tab, and look at the effect and select UnderlineJoel Jaisi