All in Tableau Text Tables
Tableau text tables are very powerful, but they're also pretty rigid, right? If you're a text table power user and you haven't checked out the Table Viz Extension, drop what you're doing!
A few things you can do with this versatile extension:
Create columns of varying widths
Add filters to a single column only
Dynamically color/format one column at a time
Set different mark types for each column Ready to add this to your toolkit?
Check out this video now!
Do you ever get asked to build text tables for stakeholders? Do you feel like you could be driving more value than providing boring black and white text in rows and columns? ðŸ«
Well, we ran a webinar all about text tables and how to take them to the next level. In this webinar, we'll talk you through 12 tips for beginners to advanced Tableau users.
Text tables can be overwhelming because they contain a lot of information without using many pre-attentive attributes to draw the users' attention toward areas of interest. One of the best ways to add value to a text table in Tableau is to add totals!
There are numerous types of totals you can add to a Tableau worksheet. You can add totals for Rows, Columns, and can even choose which dimension-level you want sub-totals to display at. In addition, there are some workarounds you can use to display multiple types of totals at the same time.
