diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/src/transformProps.ts b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/src/transformProps.ts
index 2fae16c31c..df59d89f09 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/src/transformProps.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/src/transformProps.ts
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ const processColumns = memoizeOne(function processColumns(
       const isMetric = metricsSet.has(key) && isNumeric(key, records);
       const isPercentMetric = percentMetricsSet.has(key);
       const isTime = dataType === GenericDataType.TEMPORAL;
+      const isNumber = dataType === GenericDataType.NUMERIC;
       const savedFormat = columnFormats?.[key];
       const numberFormat = config.d3NumberFormat || savedFormat;
 
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ const processColumns = memoizeOne(function processColumns(
       } else if (isPercentMetric) {
         // percent metrics have a default format
         formatter = getNumberFormatter(numberFormat || PERCENT_3_POINT);
-      } else if (isMetric || numberFormat) {
+      } else if (isMetric || (isNumber && numberFormat)) {
         formatter = getNumberFormatter(numberFormat);
       }
       return {
diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/test/TableChart.test.tsx b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/test/TableChart.test.tsx
index d8d76b5c8f..1e699b6888 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/test/TableChart.test.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/test/TableChart.test.tsx
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ describe('plugin-chart-table', () => {
       // should successful rerender with new props
       const cells = tree.find('td');
       expect(tree.find('th').eq(1).text()).toEqual('Sum of Num');
+      expect(cells.eq(0).text()).toEqual('Michael');
       expect(cells.eq(2).text()).toEqual('12.346%');
       expect(cells.eq(4).text()).toEqual('2.47k');
     });
diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/test/testData.ts b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/test/testData.ts
index f617ce8a1f..9896e7bf49 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/test/testData.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-table/test/testData.ts
@@ -144,6 +144,20 @@ const advanced: TableChartProps = {
     ...basicFormData,
     metrics: ['sum__num'],
     percent_metrics: ['pct_nice'],
+    column_config: {
+      name: {
+        d3NumberFormat: '.3s',
+      },
+      sum__num: {
+        d3NumberFormat: '.3s',
+      },
+      pct_nice: {
+        d3NumberFormat: '.3s',
+      },
+      'abc.com': {
+        d3NumberFormat: '.3s',
+      },
+    },
   },
   queriesData: [
     {