Report Generation Tutorial?

Hi All,
I have never used the Report Generation functions in LabVIEW before, but I would like to start. Is there a tutorial on the subject anywhere?
I am using LV2011 Full Development System. I don't have any additional toolkits installed for Report Generation or anything else.
Thanks,
FB

Did you try a search? There's this: http://www.ni.com/swf/presentation/us/reportgen/. And also this: http://www.ni.com/white-paper/3178/en.
Others: http://search.ni.com/nisearch/app/main/p/bot/no/ap/tech/lang/en/pg/1/sn/catnav:tu/q/report%20generat...
Have you looked at the examples and the manual? There are additional examples posted on the NI site: http://search.ni.com/nisearch/app/main/p/bot/no/ap/tech/lang/en/pg/1/sn/catnav:ex/q/report%20generat...

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nrp wrote:
I have an app which has been happily ticking over for several weeks, and then this error was generated when attempting to write a table to a spreadsheet.
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