Enhancement request: Report Attributes

1. If I have a report with columns 1,2,3,4,5 and I uncheck the show checkbox on columns 2 and 3 and set Break Formatting to "First and Second columns", it still uses the "unshown" column.
IMHO, it should automatically pick up the first and second "visible" columns
2. When I type in stuff in the HTML expression box on a report column, the CSS class & style boxes are effectively ignored. This should be clearly mentioned in the Online help for those 2 fields.
[Workaround is to wrap the HTML expression in a SPAN tag and style that as you want]
Thanks

Naming branches rather than the faceless list in the branch development screen would make this much better. We have quite a complex page which has the following list of branches - anyone fathom a guess what each one does? The report on clicking the Branch heading is a little better but still a name would be better.
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    In most cases, this is happening when we are joining two or three tables with say 10 million rows on each table. The join condition is good (meaning there is not a Cartesian Product) but the resultant data is 10 million rows - something you not likely want to sort. Even with a limit on the number of rows returned (Report Attributes - Layout and Pagination - Max Row Count) to something reasonable, like 500, the 10 million resultant rows are first being sorted and then the first 500 returned.
    So, yes, a "sort-enabled" report should NOT automatically sort. Which is what is happening.
    Of course, it might be a good thing to have some sort of Variable that we could set on a page to decide if we want automatic sorting. On most pages, an automatic sort is great - as the amount of data returned will always be small.
    On the pages where I have this problem, it would be great to do the automatic sort when one or more of the PopUp LOVs are populated. So, within a "After Submit" process I might want to turn automatic sorting on.
    Hey, if we are going to ask for an enhancement/change, we might as well ask for something really flexible.

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