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Format chart elements - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Tableau Essential Training
Format chart elements
- [Instructor] When you create a chart or other visualization in Tableau, the program applies its built-in formatting to what you've done. As with most every other aspect of a Tableau viz, you can format your chart's elements to emphasize particular aspects of your data or just provide the appearance that you want. I will show you several different ways to format elements of a Viz in this movie. My sample file is 10_02_Elements, and you can find it in the chapter 10 folder of the exercise files collection. In this Viz, I have a line chart and if I want to change the formatting of the line, I can start by clicking it. And then one way to change it is by changing its color. To do that, I will go over to the marks card and click the color button and a color palette is displayed and let's say that I want to change it to orange, so I'll go ahead and click orange and you can see the changes taking place. There are other…
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