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Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2

You're reading from   Getting Started with Tableau 2019.2 Effective data visualization and business intelligence with the new features of Tableau 2019.2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838553067
Length 260 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tristan Guillevin Tristan Guillevin
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Preface 1. Catching Up with Tableau 2019 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Tableau Core 3. Getting Started with Tableau Desktop 4. Connecting to Data and Simple Transformations 5. Building an Efficient Data Source 6. Design Insightful Visualizations 7. Powerful Dashboards, Stories, and Actions 8. Publishing and Interacting in Tableau Server 9. An Introduction to Calculations 10. Analytics and Parameters 11. Advanced Data Connections 12. Dealing with Security 13. How to Keep Growing Your Skills A. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

The toolbar options

Whether you are working on a Worksheet, Dashboard, or Story, you can always see the toolbar on top. Let's review some of the most important and useful options it offers (and don't worry, we'll use them all in the next chapters):

  • Undo The toolbar options: This reverses your action. The great thing is that you can undo an unlimited number of times, starting back from the very beginning if you want!
  • Add a new Data Source The toolbar options: This opens the menu to choose a new connection to a file or a server.
  • Duplicate Worksheet The toolbar options: This creates a copy of the current Worksheet.
  • Clear The toolbar options: This removes the pills and formatting in the Worksheet. You can use the arrow to clear only specific parts.
  • Swap The toolbar options: This replaces the pills in Rows with those in the Columns and vice versa.
  • Sort ascending/descending The toolbar options: This automatically sorts the selected Dimension.
  • Show Labels The toolbar options: This is a shortcut to display the labels.
  • Fit The toolbar options: This defines how the Worksheet should fit on the screen. For Standard, the size of the cells...
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