Dynamic Selection of Report Column Format

Is it possible to dynamically set the number format on a report column? I thought it would be as easy as setting the 'Number/Date Format' to a session state variable such as &NUMBER_FORMAT. However, when I tried this the column returned the following value ##########.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
David

OK, this is a favorite hack of mine combined with Sergio's suggestion. Essentially, we select the column twice, display it with one column using Sergio's idea and sort it on another hidden and unformatted copy of the column (hope I didn't lose you yet):
1) Add another column of the same source to the query and give it an alias:select ename,to_car(sal,'&NUMBER_FORMAT.') sal,sal sal_sort
from emp2) Edit the report > report attributes > sal_sort column attributes. In the HTML Expression field, type #SAL#.
3) On the report attributes page, unclick the "Show" column for sal.
Now you are displaying the SAL column in the SAL_SORT column allowing the reporting engine to properly sort the column based on the unformatted SAL_SORT. I use this technique a lot for quarters. I'll show Q105, but it's sorting on an actual date behind the scenes.
Happy hacking!
Tyler

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It would make more sense to use something like SQL*Plus column formats,

I am familiar with the to_char(number) function. I just tried it in the report as suggested. It does not format the columns in the user defined report. I tryed the same statement using a number in sqlplus and it worked fine.
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I have several reports on which the dynamic selection is not working. For instance, the report CN43N. The report is outputting all data in a year i.e it is disregarding the condition I specified in the dynamic selection fields.
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Also Nelmaz,
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Symptom
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968358 wrote:
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I've got a basic report with a column that is a concatenation of other columns (used for break formatting), and I want to give the effect that there are still separate 'columns' in the concatenation. I've tried using CHR(9) and RPAD in the SQL query to add the 'whitespace' but as soon as Apex gets hold of it, the extra spaces are removed and I'm left with only a single space.
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I've got a basic report with a column that is a concatenation of other columns (used for break formatting), and I want to give the effect that there are still separate 'columns' in the concatenation. I've tried using CHR(9) and RPAD in the SQL query to add the 'whitespace' but as soon as Apex gets hold of it, when the browser renders the output in accordance with the HTML spec the extra spaces are removed and I'm left with only a single space.The HTML specification instructs user agents to collapse white space characters, so spaces and ASCII tabs in options will be treated as a single space.
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or
<li>The HTML Expression property for a <tt><pre></tt> HTML wrapper (ensuring the Display Text As column attribute is Standard Report Column rather than the default Display as Text (escape special characters) ):
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I'm still new to APEX, so apologies if this sounds like a stupid question, but so far I can't find anything online about how to do the following.
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Dynamic alignment of report column and page item value

Hi friends,
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