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Joshua N. Milligan
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Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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Leveraging formatting in Tableau

We will focus on worksheet-level formatting in this chapter, as we’ve already covered metadata (data source-level formatting) in Chapter 2, Connecting to Data in Tableau, and we will cover dashboards and stories in Chapter 8, Telling a Data Story with Dashboards. However, it is beneficial to see the big picture of formatting in Tableau.

Tableau employs default formatting that includes default fonts, colors, shading, and alignment. Additionally, there are several levels of formatting you can customize, as shown in the following table:

Format Level

Description

Example

Locale

Based on the locale of the system (or a manually adjusted locale) and sets the default format used for currency and dates.

Setting the locale...

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Joshua N. Milligan

Joshua N. Milligan is a Hall of Fame Tableau Zen Master and 2017 Iron Viz Global finalist. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through data visualization using Tableau and data cleaning and structuring using Tableau Prep. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
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