Changing axis labels on Excel XY Graph

Hello,
I'm trying to generate a report using the Report Generation Tollkit, i was following the steps indicated in the NI report tutorial that helped me a lot.
The problem is that i could not change the scaling of the X axis which is giving me always numbers from 1 to 11 then zeros after while these numbers need to be under date format (ex 10/04/2013), i'll appreciate the help if someone knows how to fix this.
Thank you,
MGarry
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Hi MGarry,
It seems that excel has a special way of representing the date/time format. See this: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/7AAFFD177BBB33CC86256E91000B1E32
So we know how it is represented in Excel, but the issue is telling excel that those numbers are meant to be interpreted as date/time format not regular decimal numbers. Have you managed to do this in excel manually? (without using the report generation toolkit). If so you might be able to make a skeleton of the graph and then update it using the following excel update graph VI (http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/370274E-01/lvoffice/excel_update_graph/). You can also add row headers and column headers. I would check to see if its possible manually first and we can go from there.
Regards,
Basil
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

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