If you are using SQL reporting services to display or generate a table and want to display against each row a trend indicator. Do not use images, after a few rows you will see a significant impact on the time to load and the download size. Instead use a character. To insert an ASCII character, press and hold down ALT while typing the character code.

Up Triangle = 9650 ▲  
Line = 9644 ▬  
Down Triangle = 9660 ▼

Example of performance improvement

Full list here of ASCII characters:

[https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_geometric.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_utf_geometric.asp)

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