Number Format Model (Percent Sign)

Hi all,
I am hoping that someone will be able to assist me with a Number Formatting issue I'm experiencing using APEX 3.0.1.
I have a report display a financial amount and a percentage column and I want to display totals for both these columns with appropriate signs - local currency for fiscal amounts and percentage sign (%) for the percent column.
The financial column is easy as it is included in the seeded number formats available but I don't believe there is a format modifier for the % sign. I have achieved displaying the percentage sign at individual row level by adding #PERCENT#% to the HTML Expression of the Report Column Attribute.
...... <Fin Col> <% Col>
 $1,230.00 0.01%
 $30.55 15.00%
 $1,000.00 3.00%
 $2,263.55 18.01 <-- Missing % sign in sum row
However the percentage sign does not appear in the calculated sum total row.
Doing a TO_CHAR in the actual SQL Query for the percentage column means that the sum row always returns 0 (zero).
Does anyone know how I'd be able to achieve the formatting at a sum row level for the percentage column?
Kind Regards,
Gary.

You mixed both expression in a format.
G- comma(,)
D- decimal (.)
Yours
select to_char(9693.256,'$0G000.000') from dual;that should be either of this way
select to_char(9693.256,'$0G000D000') from dual;or
select to_char(9693.256,'$0,000.000') from dual;i hope you could understand.
kanish

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