Printing report to MS word

i'm building a stand alone application that puts the collected data into Microsoft Word, and it then sends the word report to the printer when click Print from my LabVIEW. But when click Print it runs and generates error message that says "Error 7 occured at Open VI Reference in Dispose Report.vi ->Word Report.vi ->Main.vi". I think i'm missing something during building application stage but i'm not sure what it is. How can i approach this error?

Hi locman,
This error happens when the Report Generation Toolkit's dynamic VIs are not included during the build process. There are two great knowledge-base articles that deal with this error 7 and using the Report Generation toolkit in word and excel. The first one Please take a look at it and let us know if you have any other questions. I hope this helps!
Carla
National Instruments
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Thank you for the link!
For some reasons i can´t find this specific article in the knowledge base (my browser is always rerouted to the german version of ni.com, because i am in Austria). I tried to search with the exact title of this article, and the error message string, but no results...
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