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Happy Veterans Day. Thanks for your service. Note: Direct link is only good for today.

You can use ADO to open, read and write to Excel spreadsheets. See this post. Place your raw data from LabVIEW on a separate sheet, then reference the raw data from another sheet to perform calculations or chart the data.

I would invest in the latest (3rd) edition. Even that is a little dated since it was written for LV V8.0, but you will have more recent material and a CD.

Indeed. Active-X Excel reports are a headache. If your boss can spring $500 for the Report Generator Toolkit from NI it will save you tons of grief and time. I am convinced that the report toolkit will pay for itself in saved time after the first couple of times you use it. Otherwise, like thols said, use a simple tab-delimited text file. Another option is to use the standard report generator VI's and make HTML documents you can save on your network.

Bugzilla is a little complicated. I had a very good experience with it though at the time because we had an IT guy that managed all of our software. Where I am now I set up Fogbugz on my own and have been using it for a few months. No problems at all. It was extremely easy to set up and it's very user-friendly.

Indeed. This is a bunny with a pancake on its head moments.