This week’s tips comes from Darren Hunt of IBG. Someone much smarter than I am.
Out-of-the-box SSRS does not provide the option to export a report to the tab-delimited format. If you have this need you can “enable” this functionality in less than 5 minutes. Here’s how:
http://seanmkrause.com/2012/10/09/sql-server-2008-r2-tab-exports/