OBIEE Answers - default formats

Hi there,
I'm looking for a way to customize the default formats of requests in Answers. Currently when I create a new request the font sizes / font colours / background colours etc of the column headings are not consistent and I end up with different column heading formats.
Is there somewhere that we can control these formatting settings? I have checked the web catalog xml code and am happy that the settings defined here are correct, but these are not what I am seeing on the front-end. Is there a style sheet somewhere that overrides the web catalog settings?
Reasonably new to OBIEE so if you can shed any light on this it would be much appreciated!

Thanks for the replies - these are both very useful suggestions.
I can use system-wide defaults & custom css classes to apply specific formats to specific columns/measures. However am I right in saying these custom styles would have to be applied manually each time the column is included in a request? Ideal scenario would be that these are pre-defined, or if there is a way set the default format (I'm more concerned with font sizes / background colours etc than data formats as the system-wide defaults will take care of this)?

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