Advanced Report Design - Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services - page 185

Figure 6-1
Here's a shortcut that may save you some work: You can set groups of properties by either expanding
the properties group and setting the individual members or you may use the group summary line. For
example, if you wanted to set the BorderWidth properties for multiple text boxes to be the same as the
one shown in Figure 6-1, you could copy all of the values from the BorderWidth property group sum-
mary ( 1pt, 3pt, 4pt, 2pt, 2pt ) and paste this text into the same line for the target text boxes. Report items
that support the same properties may be selected as a group and set at one time, using the properties
window for the common group selection.
You may simply type or paste all of the property values, separated by commas, on
the properties group summary. This makes it easy to copy and paste a group of prop-
erties to multiple report items.
Most report items support Padding properties, which are used to offset the placement of text and other
related content within the item. Padding is specified in points. A unit of measure from the printing indus-
try, a PostScript point equates to 1/72 of an inch or approximately 1/28 of a centimeter. In Figure 6-2, I've
diagrammed a text box with padding margins. These are shown with the corresponding Padding section of
the properties window.