Hyphenation in SSRS - reporting-services

Question

I want to add hyphenation to the column headers of a tablix
Consider the column value "waterbodiesinhereforme"
Currently SSRS is hyphenating based on the size it can fit inside the tablix column header. Like below .
waterbodiesinhereforme
But my requirement is
waterbodiesin-
hereforme
So far I have tried the soft hyphen character , ­ which did not work in the ssrs even though html rendering was set to true. Even the Unicode "00AD" did not work.
When I tried with the ZeroWidthCharacter it worked correctly, but I do not know how to introduce a hyphen when there is a new line.
Zero Width Character Example
="water" + ChrW(&h200B) + "bodies" + ChrW(&h200B) + "in" + ChrW(&h200B) + "here" + ChrW(&h200B) + "for" + ChrW(&h200B) + "me"
Things I cannot do
- Hardcode the hyphen (not acceptable because this value is dynamic)

Answer 1

I've written this in Excel VBA, but this can be easily transferred to SSRS.
This splits the input string into parcels of 10 characters separated by carriage returns. You can change the string length by changing the initial value of IntSplit. You could add your zerowidthcharacter if you wanted. The Function code would need to be added to the "Report Properties>Code" section of the SSRS, with the string requiring the split being placed in the Expression for the field:
=code.SplitString(Fields!YourFieldName.value)
Here's the code ...
Private Sub do_it()
Dim strString As String
Dim StrNewString As String
strString = "This is a very long sentence that needs to be chunked up"
strString = SplitString(strString)
Debug.Print strString
End Sub
Private Function SplitString(ByVal strInput As String) As String
Dim StrOut As String
Dim IntSplit As Integer
Dim Intstart As Integer
Dim j As Integer
IntSplit = 10
Intstart = 1
StrOut = ""
For j = 1 To Len(strInput)
If Int(j / IntSplit) = j / IntSplit Then
StrOut = StrOut + Mid(strInput, Intstart, IntSplit) + vbCrLf
Intstart = j + 1
End If
Next
StrOut = StrOut + Mid(strInput, Intstart, Len(strInput) - (Intstart - 1))
SplitString = StrOut
'Return SplitString ' A Return statement is required in SSRS
End Function
Output
This is a
very long
sentence t
hat needs
to be chun
ked up