Flexible crosstab report layout - Word template builder

I'm new to BI Publisher and learning new things every day. I'm now working on a complex template layout and I'm not even sure if it can be handled at this point. Looking for any advice someone can provide?
The layout is very similar to a crosstab report, but with some flexibility in terms of layout. Here's a brief description:
A1 G1
A2 G2
A3 B3 C3 D3 E3 F3 G3 G4
Cells A1 and A2 are static (text labels read from the XML)
Cells A3 - F3 are columns of the crosstab report. Column A and B always will appear, columns C - F may or may not appear (2 or 3 will appear - just don't know which ones)
Cells G1 - G2 - Data column headers - This is a repeating column for different data points. There may be 1 up to 20 columns. Only want to display 5 of these per table, since more will go off the page. The next columns should go to a new table
Cells G3 and G4 - These are the data points for the "crosstab". One is a min value / one is a max value for the specific row / column combination.
Right now, I've got the columns A3 - F3 generating correctly, but cells A1 and A2 do not shrink and take up the same space as all 6 columns would if columns A3 to F2 were to be displayed. I've got a for-each in A3 that ends in F3. I've also got a for-each in G1 - G2 to extend the repeating columns for the data points.
Is it possible to have cells A1 and A2 size differently based on how many columns are to be displayed between A3 and F3?
Is there a better layout than the one above to tackle the creation of this data table?
Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Hi Vivek,
I have LabVIEW 8.5 Development version and the report generation tool kit. I will be writing VI to fill the data in and generate a word report with Up to 873 different tests. The template that I attached is the sample template for only one test, I will be doing 873 tests. The sample test template consists of scope shot and some measured parameters.
My situation - the VI that I will be writing will fill in the sample template that I attached for 873 times. For me to generate a word report for all tests, I would have to create a report template with 873 sample templates. Where there is a red box, I would have to create a field for each box so the LabVIEW will know where to put the data in.
Well, that is lot of work in the first place. Secondly, to keep up with 873 different permuation fields can create lot of unnecessary programming mess. Lastly, if the user decide to run only part of the test, then there would be lot of empty test templates. If user decide to run only 10 tests the final report will have 860 empty boxes. That is not efficient.
My goal is to create the word report using just one sample template rather than 873. I would like to copy the sample template based on number of tests user defines.
My question is- Is there any way to copy the sample test template that I attached using the report generation toolkit?
Regards,
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