How do I install the OfficeWriter Designer?
The OfficeWriter Designer is part of the overall OfficeWriter kit. The installer for the Designer gets unpacked when you install OfficeWriter on the Report Server. Just run the installer on every client machine where report designing takes place. The designer toolbar can be freely distributed. • Is Microsoft Office necessary with OfficeWriter for Reporting Services? With any edition of OfficeWriter, Microsoft Office is NOT required on the server. However, to design reports created by OfficeWriter, Excel AND Word are required on the client machines. To view reports client-side, Excel, Word or equivalent software like Open Office, is required. • The spreadsheets that I generate with Microsoft’s standard Excel rendering extension, which is included with Reporting Services (SP1), appear to be a “watered down” version of Excel. Why is this? “The “out of the box” Microsoft Excel renderer can only produce output that is based on the lowest common denominator between a static file (i.e. HTML o
