Introduction to SSRS Report Builder

I made a short 30 minute presentation to fwPASS yesterday on the topic of Report Builder after Mark Dalman presented an Introduction to BizTalk. The intention was to present on Report Builder 3.0 (SQL Server 2008R2 version), but unfortunately I had SQL Server installation issues that prevented it. I presented using SQL Server 2005 Report Builder instead, but I highlighted some of the new features found in Version 3.0.

The first three slides are just tidbits of fwPASS information followed by the presentation.

Introduction to SSRS Report Builder

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A side note: Other than slide 8, I created the entire presentation using Microsoft’s PowerPoint WebApp on my Windows Live SkyDrive account. It is a pretty nifty web-based alternative to Google Docs

Microsoft Word 2007 Equation Tools Hotkey

I was attempting to use the Alt+0153 notation to insert a Trademark symbol in a Word document so I held down the [Alt] key and pressed the plus key (+). It didn’t insert the Trademark symbol, but it did pop up the Equation tools designer. If you’re a geek like me, you would probably find it interesting if you haven’t experimented with it yet.

Now back to figuring out how to add the Trademark symbol without having to open Character Map, find the symbol, and copy and paste it from there. Hint: Hold down the [Alt] key and type the code representing the Trademark symbol, 0153, using the numeric keypad – no plus sign involved. Copyright = 0169.