Default Workbook Formatting - Apply Styles to Design Item Cells

Hi All,
I am trying to create a template workbook with design items and formatting that I want to use to build a number of end user workbooks with multiple queries.
The baisc idea is that the template workbook would contain a Theme with styles applied to design items. I would then make this as my default workbook ( not global default but only my user specific default workbook ) and then build the rest o the workbooks with queries in them on multiple sheets.
So these workbooks with queries would also contain the Theme from the template workbook. And in future if any formatting changes need to be made I would only have to change the Theme on my template workbook.
Sounds perfect in an ideal world. The challenge I'm facing is that I am unable to apply a SAPBEX style to design items object. Since the number of cells is dynamic on an Analysis grid I want to apply the style to the Analysis grid object as the help describes it - see below.
I am not turning off the formatting check in the data provider since it shows key figures in internal format. I have key figures that are rounded to zero decimals as well as % values in my queries and want to show them without decimals and with the % sign. Turning off the formatting flag removes the Std. formatting from the query definition.
So I was hoping to keep the formatting turned on and then apply a style to the analysis grid object. Please advice if htis is possible or any workaround to achieve this.
Thanks

Hi Ravi.
You cannot apply a style to a design item. The design items are using pre-defined styles, so you will have to modify the already existing SAPBEX*-style that handles the part of the design item you want to customize. If you cannot tell which style does what, just make a change to it and run the workbook to see what you changed.
Br
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