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Using SSRS 2008 (R2) and Report Builder 3.0
We have a lot of reports that currently use bookmarks for internal navigation. They work fine except that our Nav Bar is located in the page header. Because the bookmarks are below the header the header is often not visible when a page opens.
Is there anyway to force the page to open above the page header? Are there any alternatives to bookmarks that would work?
Our Nav Bar has to be located in the header so that we can stop it from being exported to individual spreadsheets in Excel.
Thanks for you help!

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Naamkeek,
According to your description, you hope the page header always visible when scrolling down in the report. In fact, we can’t keep it visible while scrolling in reporting service. As a workaround, we can refer to the following steps:
Copy the information of page header with ‘Go to Bookmark’ action as header row in a tablix.
Set header rows visible while scrolling property in the tablix.
If there are several tablixes in your report, you can set as previously mentioned separately.
For more information about Keep header rows visible while scrolling, please refer to the following thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e1f67cec-8fa3-4c5d-86ba-28b57fc4a211/keep-header-rows-visible-while-scrolling?forum=sqlreportingservi
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Wendy Fu

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