No Word or Excel selection in report generation toolkit

I've uninstalled/repaired the Report Generation Toolkit that I received with 8.2 Toolkit disks. I still don't have the selection of Word or Excel with the New Report.vi.  All I get is Standard Report or HTML. Some magic I'm missing?
PaulG.
"I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane." -- George Orwell

Check out my reply (#4) in this thread, where I link to the KnowledgeBase entry that discusses having a toolkit installed to multiple LabVIEW versions.
-D
Darren Nattinger, CLA
LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman

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