Formating in a CrossTab - dollars vs percent

Question

I have a cross-tab in which I have added two additional calculated columns to show the difference between the two previous columns. 
One column shows the difference in dollars (since the previous columns are in dollars).
The second column shows the difference as a percent. My calculation works great for the Percent column, however the column is formatted as currency. This makes sense of course, since the data used for the calculation are also in dollars.
However, if I change the format of the percent column to be a percent, all of the other columns in my cross-tab also change to a percent. It seems that it is either an all or nothing situation.
I notice that when I select a field in the u201C% Changedu201D column, all of the values in the Cross-tab are selected. Is there a way to select only the column that I want to work with?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Problem:  Cross Tab formatting different columns with dollars and percents within the same row
We would like to set certain columns to dollar values and certain columns to percent values in Cross tabs but you click on one row and it changes that value format for the whole row. We can only change either all dollars or all percents. What we would like is to be able to specify which columns are dollars and which ones are percents.
Solution:  Create a formula in the Format Field to pick a $ or % based on the current column.
1)  Right click on any data value and choose Format Field
2)  Click on the Number tab and click on the Customizeu2026 button
3)  Click on Currency Symbol tab, check Enable Currency Symbol,  choose Floating
4) Click the x-2 button for Position
Type in titles of the columns you want to have dollars values and let the rest go to percent
select GridRowColumnValue(<db field>)
case "<column title>", "<column title>", "<column title>" : crLeadingCurrencyOutsideNegative
default: crTrailingCurrencyOutsideNegative
(for example)
select GridRowColumnValue("merchant_transaction_detail_rpt.trans_date")
case "Current", "Previous", "Yr Ago" : crLeadingCurrencyOutsideNegative
default: crTrailingCurrencyOutsideNegative
5) Click the x-2 button for Currency Symbol
Type in titles of the columns you want to have dollars values and let the rest go to percent
select GridRowColumnValue(<db field>)
case "<column title>", "<column title>", "<column title>" : "$"
default: "%"
(for example)
select GridRowColumnValue("merchant_transaction_detail_rpt.trans_date")
case "Current", "Previous", "Yr Ago" : "$"
default: "%"
Hope this helps. This is copied and pasted from a word doc I created with screen shots that I can email to you if you think it will help.