Labview control image to excel

I want to append my graphs in the front panel of Labview to excel after the program is done running. I don't want to see the data in excel, I just want to see the graphs. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks

Analog,
If you have the Report Generation Toolkit, you can use the Excel Easy Graph VI. It will only create a graph on your worksheet. Each graph in Excel also has its Datasheet, which is a separate window from Worksheet. By default, Excel Easy Graph VI will also open this second window when you first create the graph. However, when you save, close and reopen the worksheet, you will only see the graph.
Zvezdana S.
Attachments:
Excel_Graph.vi ‏41 KB
test.xls ‏16 KB

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