I am suggesting a global 'this.value' option for conditional formatting. This approach would allow quick use of the fields value to be the basis of the condition. In reports that use complex and sometimes lengthy calculations, this is would be a huge timesaver.  This feature would also have to work with your current 'cut and paste' rule feature.

If I had to create individual rules for each box on a page, or a series of rules for each box to do multiple colors it would be a very unproductive use of time for me.

Putting my one project in perspective, if I had to do it with rules.

Right now, I have over 300 fields with 2 rules each, which is 600 rules to write and that is only about 75% of what I need on a single page of the report. This is a serious time burn activity just to get something like a conditional formatting to work on the value of the field. The rule approach might be good if the solution has less than 10 fields, but to have the shear numbers I do, I do not think it rule creation for each field is a viable solution.  Another solution proposed was to create additional calculated columns. The problem with this is that the data source already has 100+ columns and I would hate to add any more fields (at least 100+ more), due to performance considerations.

I love the Telerik reporting solution do to the instant flexibility in my apps, but the conditional formatting is lacking especially if you use it for large analysis reports with comparisons that the client (and myself) would like coloring of the text to 'see' things easier.

Telerik: See ticket 1462207 as reference