Report generation using Excel

I created a VI for making a report in Excel. It works correctly, however when I built an executable files, it is unable to do the processing and announce ‘error 7 open VI reference in Excel’! I was wondering if anybody can guide me that how I can fix this error. Many thanks

Hello,
I think that if you add the Excel/Word dynamic VIs to your project, you will see them in the VI list when building your EXE, which would allow you to add them to your application as dynamic VIs.  I'm guessing you currently don't have the Excel/Word dynamic VIs added into your project yet.
Good luck,
-D
Darren Nattinger, CLA
LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman

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