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The Shape report control is used to display one of the available shape types on a report. You can add a shape report control to a report by dragging it from the toolbox and dropping it onto the report design surface. 

In the ShapeStyle property of the Shape report control, you can select Rectangle, RoundRect or Ellipse, or you can use an expression to assign fields, datasets, parameters, constants, operations or common values to it. You can highlight different sections or parts of a report using a shape report control. For example, you can use a Rectangle as border around different report controls or the entire page or you can use an Ellipse to highlight a note on your report.

If you choose RoundRect, you can use the RoundingRadius property to select how much to round the corners.

Shape Dialog

Properties for the Shape are available in the Shape dialog. To open it, with the Shape control selected on the report, under the Properties Window, click the Property dialog link.

The Shape dialog lets you set properties on the report control with the following pages.

Note: You can select <Expression...> within many of these properties to open the Expression Editor.

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