MS WORD TABLE commands such as "AutoFit to contents" can be achieved in LabVIEW report generation?

LV 7.1 and Report Generation Toolkit 1.1.
I generate a report by the tookit.But tables are in disorder because of the different contents in cells.
Is there a way(or any function) in LabVIEW to made it like "AutoFit to contents" or "AutoFit to window" in WORD.
Thanks
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Windows XP SP2+LabVIEW 7.1
Attachments:
Report.vi ‏98 KB

Where is this VI that you say to take the "Data" output from located? I can not find it on the Palette.
I need to do the same thing to a word report I am creating, autofit the tables to contents (except certain ones) and need to know how to access that property.
EDIT - Nevermind - I found it.
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/dc08b6a56dbe00a586256f1d006826dc
Thanks,
Ryan
Message Edited by RVallieu on 04-26-2006 04:14 PM
Ryan Vallieu
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