Hello, I want to add a parent row group above the row Ex. |city| |name|phone|address| NOT |city|name|phone|address| I want the name phone address to be grouped by city, and I want the city on top of the name in a single merged cell above the name|phone|address row. I've been trying all kinds of different things and nothing works... thanks

Put your data in a tablix and set |city| as a parent group either for columns or rows depending on on you want to present the data.

Stepped Layout is what you need , Heres a very good link ! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertbruckner/archive/2009/03/15/tablix-stepped-layout.aspxRajkumar Yelugu