Formatting across our entire workbook

So far we have been working on our My first Tableau Workbook and we have created multiple sheets, dashboards, and storyboards. Now, let us say that we need to follow a consistent font type across our entire workbook. If we decide to go to every single individual sheet and change the font type, it is going to be very difficult and time consuming. In earlier versions of Tableau, this was often the most challenging part. However, since version 10.0, Tableau has made provisions for us to change certain aspects of formatting and make them consistent across the entire workbook.

Let us look at the following recipe to see how it is done.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will continue using our My first Tableau Workbook file. We will work on the already created dashboard called My first Tableau Dashboard. Let us get started with the recipe.

How to do it…

1. Using the forward and backward arrows in the status bar, which is at the bottom right-hand side section of our...