22. The electronic device of claim 21 , wherein the plurality of format levels comprise a global format level, a worksheet format level, a report format level, an attribute, element, and metric format level, and a value format level in that hierarchical order, whereby the global format level is highest in the hierarchical order and the value format level is lowest in the hierarchical order.
21. The electronic device of claim 20 , wherein the plurality of format levels are used to format the plurality of reports in the workbook in a hierarchical order, wherein the hierarchical formatting order includes superseding at least one of the plurality of format levels that are higher in the hierarchical order with at least one of the plurality of format levels that are lower in the hierarchical order.