Modify x-axis display of an excel graph

Hi,
I'm want to use the excel report structure in LabVIEW. I want to format the graph so that only the start and finish values appear on the graph in excel. There doesn't appear to be a VI to do this. I also checked LabVIEW 8.5\examples\office\MSGraph Examples.llb but could not find this feature.
Does anyone know if there is anyway that I can do this using LabVIEW?
Thanks Sean

So I guess the short answer is that LabVIEW does not have a VI to do this.
I tried the following macro:
Sub fun2()
    ActiveChart.Axes(xlCategory).Select
    With ActiveChart.Axes(xlCategory)
        .TickLabelSpacing = 1000
        .TickMarkSpacing = 500
    End With
End Sub
I works fine with a graph created in excel but doesn't work with the one created by the LabVIEW VI's.
Unfortunately I am not an expert at VB macro's or indeed why LabVIEW is formatting in a strange fashion.
Are the LabVIEW VI's useless? Is it better to create ones own macro to create an excel graph? I've wasted a lot of time so far but if anyone has any ideas I'd be delighted to hear them.
Plan B is to create a template with the graphs already formatted and insert the numbers. I don't want to do this the template is very big and time consuming to open but in the absence of a better solution.....

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