title: Exporting SSRS Report to Word Changes Formatting
body: <p>I have a report that I developed in VS2017. If I run the report in VS2017 and export it to Word (.docx) the report looks the same in VS2017 preview as it does in Word. If I deploy that report to SQL Server 2017 and view that same report through the Report Manager portal (at <a href="http://reportserver/Reports/browse/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://reportserver/Reports/browse/</a>) or in a Windows application using the ReportViewer control, the report looks the same in preview but when it is exported to Word from either of those locations the report formatting is different than when exported from VS2017. More specifically, carriage returns that a leave a blank line between text data within a textbox are not being rendered to show a blank line. There are also some textbox cells within a tablix that are intentionally empty in the report that the user needs to fill in once exported to Word. Those are very hard to get the cursor into using the mouse and when using the keyboard to navigate into them it is pushing the text down into a space where it should not be. Any ideas? What is the difference between the export in VS2017 vs. the ReportViewer?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XBBO6.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XBBO6.png" alt="Removed spacing in textbox"></a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/89oAu.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/89oAu.png" alt="Pushed down due to editing table cell"></a></p>