SSRS Dynamic Width for Body of Report - dynamic

I have a report that currently has a table with 10 columns. I have visibility rules set on the last 5 columns to hide in some scenarios. When I hide those columns there is a large amount of white space on the right side of the report. I do not want this, i want the table to fill out the page. Ideally SSRS would have the capability to have the page width be dynamic and move with the width of the table, but that does not appear to be the case.
I tried creating two tables, one with 10 columns and one with 5 and set the visibility rules on the table, but that created the same problem, a lot of white space on the right side when the table with 5 columns was selected, because the width of the page was set for the 10 column table.
Does anyone have any suggestions on a workaround or how to fix this issue? I know I could create two reports, but I'm hoping to avoid that option.

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You probably have most of the horizontal table figured out, just this part is important to your issue.
Step 4
Right-click on the column header and select "Edit Group". Enter this
for the group expression: =RowNumber(Nothing). This will cause the
matrix to give you one column per row of data. Since horizontal tables
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Sorry i did miss-read the question.
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