Slow performance using Word to create tables on LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit

Updated Apr 28, 2025

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Software

  • LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit

Issue Details

A Word report is generated using the Report Generation Tool Kit. This report uses a table that contains my results from my test. For this task I use the function: Word Easy Table.vi

The function works with no problems but it takes a long time to execute. More than one minute when working with 200 rows. 

Is there any option to create tables using this function faster? 

Solution

This is a common behavior using this function for large datasets. Word tables support a maximum of 63 columns. It is worth to evaluate whether using Word is necessary for this task. The performance of Excel to create large tables is better than doing the same task using Word. 

In case that Word is necessary for this task,  write the table into Excel, then use function Word Insert Object.vi to embed the table into the Word document.