Hiding values through conditional formatting (colour change)

Hi all,
OBIEE version is 10.1.3.4.0.
I have some reports where I'm supposed to hide some values as soon as they surpass a certain threshold. Hide, not filter that is. Conditional formatting being the obvious choice I wanted to simply set the colour to the background colour when the threshold is surpassed.
However, since all affected reports use alternating row highlighting, the background colour may change. I.e. it's not simply about colouring the values #FFFFFF
I can't use CSS style display:none by the way, since this actually shifts the following columns to the left
Without display:none
!http://lh4.ggpht.com/_kh3-h2s8BmA/So5ZmnvXnOI/AAAAAAAAAzk/aL9QznSGGF0/s800/0001_actual_values.jpg!
With display:none:
!http://lh6.ggpht.com/_kh3-h2s8BmA/So5ZsTj694I/AAAAAAAAAzo/0cYGr9dUe1I/s800/0002_values_with_display_none.jpg!
Any thoughts on this?
Cheers,
C.

We did achieve conditional formatting for pivot tables. This is the workaround. See if this helps.
Create a new column measure at the BMM layer (Lets call it 'M'). This is the measure based on which the conditional formatting on another measure has to be done. Add this column 'M' to the report columns in the pivot table.
Now, we get 2 measures. The report shows data for both these measures, side-by-side in the results. Now to use conditional formatting in the column that we just added-
Use the images (traffic signals, colored lines, colored arrows etc) provided by OBIEE in the 'Format' tab after applying the conditional formatting. OBIEE provides a choices to "Display Images only". Choose this option.
Now the report has 2 measure columns side-by-side with value and the image. We have to merge these columns for the visual effect. Use the column border property for both the measures. In the first mesure select the column border as 'C' and in the adjacent column select a mirror image of 'C' (mirror on right side of 'C'). This provides a visual effect that the two columns are one.
This concept can be use to hide values also.
Cheers,
A

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