Finding the item referred to in the Error Message in Paginated Reports

Working within Paginated Reports can be both rewarding but also frustrating.  Rewarding because you can literally format or create additional calculations on any field within the report within any object.  However, once you start to build up many different objects (tables, matrixes, graphs, text boxes), each of these objects has a field name and value.  I would strongly recommend having a logical naming policy that enables you to understand which item is being referred to by it’s name.  However, if you forget to set up a naming strategy or can’t find the item, you can open the .rdl file using either Visual Studio or any text based editor.