Hi:
In the future, it really would be better to start an new post and then refer back to this post.
For TABULATE purposes, the VAR statement STYLE= override only impacts the variable HEADER cells. To impact the calculated statistics for one variable differently from another variable, you would need to use the STYLE= override in the table statement.
An example of this is shown here:
http://support.sas.com/kb/25/410.html
Note the way that the TABLE statement has
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var * {style={attribute=value}}
OR you could have
var * stat*{style={attribute=value}}
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and your TAGATTR attribute would go inside the curly braces with the Excel format in quotes as the value.
cynthia