By: Eric Parker
Eric Parker lives in Seattle and has been teaching Tableau and Alteryx since 2014. He's helped thousands of students solve their most pressing problems. If you have a question, feel free to reach out to him directly via email. You can also sign up for a Tableau Office Hour to work with him directly!
“Can Tableau do conditional formatting?”
Lots of new Tableau users, especially with Excel skills, want to know if they can use Tableau like Excel. Tableau isn’t really designed like Excel. It’s not intended for data input, but rather data preparation and visualization. That said, a lot of features you might be used to from Excel like highlighting cells or highlighting rows of values are possible!
For this week’s video, I focus on how you can use either a calculation or some inventive custom color applications to get a desired column of data to pop out to the user in a text table. This is particularly handy when you want to narrow your user’s focus on a specific section of the worksheet while keeping the rest of the information there for reference.
You can access the example workbook I built for the video on Tableau Public here.
You can read up more about creating custom color palettes for Tableau here.
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