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SSRS 2008 vs SSRS 2008 R2

I am trying to find out the difference between SSRS 2008 and SSRS 2008 R2 CTP. I would like to use the rich textbox that is supposed to be added to 2008 and have come accross the ssrs 2008 r2. Is it like a service pack? Have not found any explanations. the version I have is 2008 but it does not have a rich textbox in the tools. How can I get the rich textbox?

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McGurk1

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I don't quite understand your answer. I am looking for the rich textbox to be able to bold a phrase but not the entire paragraph in the textbox. Yes, I use HTML a lot. I have read they had added a rich textbox to 2008 for this purpose. Since my 2008 does now have it in the toolbox, I am trying to figure out how to get it. If a need 2008 R2 to get the rich textbox. Thanks for your response.

itcouple

In the example I gave my expression would be ="I want <b>bold text</b>"

Does it help?

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Emil

McGurk1

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Fantastic!!!! Yes, that is what I was looking for. So what I did was select the textbox on my report, right-clicked inside of it and selected Create Placeholder from the popup menu. Then I entered my entire paragraph in the expression and used the HTML markup to bold the words I wanted. So easy to do once someone points the way. Thank you again!!!