Report Generation excel column size

Dear,
In the project, I save the data in Excel with Report Generation. I would like change just the column size of my Excel report. There is an explanation in the labview help but I have always an error when I run the VI.
I work with labview 8.2
A VI is joined with a simple example.
Regard
Julien
Attachments:
report table graph.vi ‏21 KB

Julien,
I realize you only want to modify columns, but you need to put in a start and stop row value other than -1. Try setting the start and stop rows to 0.

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