Formatting Crosstab Columns

Hello. I am new to Discoverer and I had a question about formatting crosstab (outline) columns. The first column lists our employee names, while the subsequent columns have different pieces of information from the employees' expense reports (ie- lodging, transportation, etc). When drilling-down to obtain additional information (ie- destination), there is some blank destination information (showing as a "0'), that I want to format. Here is an example of what the report looks like:
Employee Transportation Lodging Meals
JOE SMITH $100 $200 $100
Miami, FL $50 $75 $25
Atlanta, GA $0 $75 $50
*0* $50 $50 $25
Is there a way to format just the employee/drill-down column to read as N/A instead of '0' without affecting any $0 data in the other columns?
I also tried to create a condition to replace any 0(null) information with something else, but the condition did not work. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you,
Erik

Sorry, tried that. It formats all of the columns to the same null value of "N.A." So, the $0 example shown above would show up as "N.A.", which I don't want.
I want to get the null drill-down (destination) data to show up as "N.A.", while keeping the rest of the columns as a "0" value for anything null.
Thanks,
Erik

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