OBIEE 11G Formatting Question

Hello - I'm new to OBIEE 11G.
Is there a way to format one column of a pivot table to have the percentage sign (and possibly have more decimal places) and leave the rest to whole numbers?
Thank you.
Jennifer

To format a column, simple go into the column properties and change it to percentage.
Take a look at the documentation...
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/bi.1111/e10544/format.htm#i1030865

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