Creating a Highlight table

A Highlight table is actually a Text table with conditional formatting where the color of the cell will denote the value of Measure. When we create a Highlight table, we make use of colors to show values from the highest to the lowest. This is great for comparing a field's value within a row or column or even within an entire table.

Getting ready

To get started with the recipe for creating a Highlight table, we will continue working in our existing Tableau workbook. Since this is an extension of the Text table, we will first recreate the Text table in a separate sheet and continue working on it. As shown in the previous recipe, our Highlight table will show the sales for different product categories across different regions. Let's check out the steps.

How to do it…

1. Since we are going to take up the same example as discussed in our previous recipe, let's duplicate the Text table sheet and rename it as Highlight table. We can either right-click on the Text table tab...