Thank you, but this is not helpful.

I doubt the file is corrupted, since I've made several attempts to do this.

More important, what you are telling me makes no sense. What I am after is an estimate that clearly shows the price I am charging my customer, and you are telling me I can't get that, and that you don't regard that as a serious problem with your product?? You insist that it has to show my markup  percentage (not the price formatted as a percentage, as you claim) and can't be changed? Really?? Come on.

Notice (see attached screen shot) that I also tried setting up selling price, as well as a drawing number, as custom fields in the item description. The Layout Designer picks up neither one.