Overlapping report items are not supported in HTML, MHTML, Word, Excel, in Preview, or the Report Viewer. If overlapping items exist, they are moved. The following rules are applied to overlapping report items:

• If the vertical overlap of report items is greater, one of the overlapping items is moved to the right. The left-most item remains where it is positioned.
  
• If the horizontal overlap of report items is greater, one of the overlapping items is moved down. The top-most item remains where it is positioned.
  
• If the vertical and horizontal overlap is equal, one of the overlapping items is moved to the right. The left-most item remains where it is positioned.
  
• If an item must be moved to correct overlapping, adjacent report items move down and/or to the right to maintain a minimum amount of spacing between the item and the report items that end above it and/or to the left of it. For example, suppose two report items overlap vertically and a third report item is 2 inches to the right of them. When the overlapping report item is moved to the right, the third report item moves to the right as well in order to maintain the 2 inches between itself and the report item to its left.
  

Overlapping report items are supported in hard page-break formats, including print.

Report items can be hidden or displayed by default, or hidden or displayed conditionally using expressions. Optionally, the visibility can be switched by clicking another report item.

The following visibility rules apply when rendering report items:

• If a report item and its contents are always hidden (it is not hidden based on an expression or its visibility cannot be switched by clicking another report item), then other report items to the right or below it do not move to fill the empty space. For example, if a rectangle and the image contained within it are hidden, the report item that starts to the right of the rectangle does not move to the left to fill what appears to be empty space. The space occupied by the rectangle is preserved.
  
• If a report item and its contents are hidden conditionally (it is hidden based on an expression or its visibility is switched by clicking another report item), then report items to the right or below it move to the left to fill in the space when the item is hidden.
  
• If the visibility of a report item and its contents can be switched by clicking another report item, then pagination changes to accommodate the report item and its contents only when it is initially displayed.
  

Many report items within a report can be kept together on a single page implicitly or explicitly by setting the keep with group or keep together properties. Report items are always rendered on the same page if the report item does not have any logical page breaks and is smaller in size than the usable page area. If a report item does not fit completely on the page on which it would usually start, a hard page break is inserted before the report item, forcing it to the next page. For soft page-break renderers, the page grows to accommodate the report item.

When the report item is always hidden, the rules for keeping items together are ignored.

The following items are always kept together:

• Images.
  
• Lines.
  
• Charts, gauges, and maps.
  
• A single row in a data region that appears separately on another page, by selecting the keep with group option. This will implicitly keep together the single row with at least one instance of the group so that the row is not orphaned. You can set this option on a data region or a group.
  
• Header area of a data region.
  
• Header area of a data region and the first row of data.
  
• Report items that can be toggled in a Tablix data region.
  

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