VbCrLf in expressions cause loss of data on export to Excel

I have a report where it is necessary to embed 3 text boxes in a rectangle, which then lives in a Tablix cell:
Within the highlighted cell lives an expression. It was necessary in this case to use commas to separate the values and then manipulate these in Excel to put them on new lines. VbCrLf, VbLf, VbCr were all tried to no avail. There can be
4 of these but only the first 2 would display. The point of the post is to engage discussion really. This is the work around in this case.
What's funny is all other instances of using rectangles to house text boxes works. And of course, it's not string length because there are other parts of the report that work.
Was not able to rapidly find this on Google so got with a consultant here where I work. It has something to do with the ASCII values returned by VbCrLf, VbCr or VbLf that cause truncation to happen in some cases.
It was hard for me to find so I'm passing the knowledge along. Having a handy consultant saved a lot of spinning wheels on dead-end google searches.
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Michael Durthaler

Hi SACSgtMike,
According to your description, you have add VbCrLf in an expression to make four values display on different lines within a textbox. But when exporting the report to Excel, only first two values can display, right?
As we tested in our environment, the VbCrLf can work fine both in preview results and Excel. We have specified the expression like below:
=Fields!SalesTerritoryGroup.Value + "," + vbcrlf + Fields!SalesTerritoryCountry.Value + "," + vbcrlf + Fields!SalesTerritoryCountry.Value + "," + vbcrlf + Fields!SalesTerritoryCountry.Value
The report both in preview mode and Excel work fine. In your scenario, since you mentioned the VbCrLf doesn’t work fine after exporting to Excel, would you please provide some screenshots about results both in preview and Excel for our analysis. Also please
share some sample data and report design.
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best regards,
Qiuyun Yu
Qiuyun Yu
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