The Preview mode displays preview of the current report. The ribbon on the Preview mode consists of the following items:

Page Layout group: It consists of the following options:

• Portrait: Changes the layout of your report to Portrait view (where the height is longer than the width).
• Landscape: Changes the layout of your report to Landscape view (where the height is shorter than the width).
• Page Setup: Opens the printer's Page Setup dialog box.

View group: It consists of the following options:

• Paginated: Switch between paginated and non-paginated views of the report.
• Parameters: Show or hide report parameter panel. It is enabled only if the report contains parameters.
• Outlines: Displays a text outline of the document.
• Thumbnails: Switch between  normal and thunbnail view.
• One page: Allows you to preview one page at a time.
• Two pages: Allows you to preview two pages at a time.    
• Zoom: Zooms the page in to a specific percent or to fit in the window. The shortcut key for zooming in is Ctrl+Plus and for zooming out is 'Ctrl+Minus'.

Navigation group: It consists of the following options:

• First Page: Navigates to the first page of the preview.
• Previous Page: Navigates to the previous page of the preview.
• Page: Entering a number in this textbox navigates the preview to that page.
• Next Page: Navigates to the next page of the preview.
• Last Page: Navigates to the last page of the preview.
• Previous View: Returns to the last page viewed.
• Next View: Moves to the next page viewed. This is only visible after the Previous View button is clicked.

Tools group: It consists of the following options:

• Hand Tool: The hand tool allows you to move the preview through a drag-and-drop operation.
• Text Select Tool: The text select tool allows you to select text through a drag-and-drop operation. You can then copy and paste this text to another application.
• Find: Clicking the Find option opens the Find pane where you can search for text in the document. To find text enter the text to find, choose search options (if any), and click Search.

Export Group: Each item in the Export group opens the Export Report to File dialog box where you can choose a location for your exported file. The Export group consists of the following options:

• PDF: Exports the report to a PDF file. The drop-down arrow includes options for PDF with non-embedded (linked) fonts and PDF /A (embedded fonts) to choose if you want to use system fronts or embed your chosen fonts in the PDF file.
• HTML: Exports the report to an HTML file. You can then copy and paste this text to another application. The drop-down arrow includes options for Plain HTML, Paged HTML, and Drilldown HTML, and Table-based HTML allowing you to choose if you want to export to a plain HTML file, multiple HTML files that can be paged using included arrow links.
• Excel: Exports the report to a Microsoft Excel file. The drop-down arrow includes options for Microsoft Excel 97 and Microsoft Excel 2007 - OpenXML allowing you to choose if you want to save the document as an XLS or XLSX file.
• RTF: Exports the report to a Rich Text File (RTF).
• Word:  Exports the report to Open XML Word (DOCX) format. 
• More: Clicking the More drop-down arrow includes additional options to export the report including: Tagged Image File Format (export as TIFF), Compressed Metafiles (export as ZIP), BMP (Bitmap Images), PNG(Portable Network Graphic), JPEG or GIF.

For more information on exporting, see Exporting and Publishing a Report.

Generate: 

It consists of Refresh button. Clicking Refresh regenerates the current report. This button changes to Stop while the report is regenerating; so you can also stop regenerating the report.