There are three improvements in the ren¬dering of reports in SQL 2008. First off, exporting a report into Comma Sepa¬rated Values (CSV) is much better and the output is clean enough for human reading as well. Next, in case of a report having a sub report, exporting it to Excel now renders the sub report as well and hides it properly in Excel.

And finally, there is a new export format option available in SQL 2008 Re¬porting Services. You now have the op¬tion of exporting a report directly to MS Word format. In the current betas it ex¬ports to the Word 97 - 2003 DOC format, but it is expected that the ISO OOXML format (DOCX and XLSX) will be sup¬port by RTM or by a patch upgrade later on.