Justify text in SQL Reporting Services

Matt picture Matt · Jun 21, 2012 · Viewed 25.4k times · Source

Is there a way of fully-justifying text in SQL Reporting Services?

I've been searching around and it seems the feature is still not supported by Reporting Services, but are there any workarounds?

I know this question has been asked before, but maybe progress has been made in the mean time.

Answer

Jeroen picture Jeroen · Jun 22, 2012

This is not possible, at least not in SSRS 2008 and below. The only options for aligning text are Left, Center and Right.

The only workaround I could think of was enabling HTML tags in a text box, but the styling for Justify alignment is just ignored. So there really aren't any suitable workarounds AFAIK, short of using picture with justified text (~shudder!~).

You should keep an eye on the corresponding MS feedback item and perhaps vote on it as well. It used to have 527 votes, but was reset to 0 during the move from MS Connect to this new feedback site. I found the bug report through this social.msdn thread, which has been going on for quite some time.