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Add or remove a page header or footer in a paginated report (Report Builder)

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Applies to: ✅ Microsoft Report Builder (SSRS) ✅ Power BI Report Builder ✅ Report Designer in SQL Server Data Tools

You can add static text, images, lines, rectangles, and borders to paginated report page headers or footers. You can place expressions and data-bound images in a textbox if you want variable or computed data in a header or footer.

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Each rendering extension processes page headers and footers differently. For more information, see Page headers and footers (Report Builder) and Pagination in Reporting Services (Report Builder).

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You can create and modify paginated report definition (.rdl) files in Microsoft Report Builder, Power BI Report Builder, and in Report Designer in SQL Server Data Tools.

Add a page header or footer

  1. Open a report.

  2. On the design surface, right-click the report, point to Insert, and then select Header or Footer.

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The Header and Footer options appear only when a header or footer is not already part of the report.

Configure a page header or footer

  1. On the design surface, right-click the page header or footer.

  2. Point to Insert, and then select one of the following items to add it to the header or footer area:

    • Textbox

    • Line

    • Rectangle

    • Image

  3. Right-click the page header, and then select Header Properties to add borders, background images, or colors, or to adjust the width of the header. Then, select OK.

  4. Right-click the page footer, and then select Footer Properties to add borders, background images, or colors, or to adjust the width of the footer. Then, select OK.

Remove a page header or footer

  1. Open a report.

  2. On the design surface, right-click the page header or footer, and then select Delete.

Note

When you remove a page header or footer, you delete it from the report. Any items that you previously added to the page header or footer don't reappear if you subsequently add the header or footer again.

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