Tableau Highlight Table – Steps to Build Highlight Table

In this tutorial, we are going to study about Tableau Highlight Table by row and stepwise procedure to create it. So, let us start our learning.

Tableau Highlight Table

It represents tabular information in a color-coded grid. The background color of the individual cells corresponds to the relative magnitude of the value it represents. Highlight tables are great when displaying the actual numeric values are important, but you also want the visual emphasis by adding the background colors on the cells.

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In this recipe, we will modify the text table created in the Creating a text table (crosstab) recipe to create a text table with a colored background, based on a film’s worldwide gross amount:

Build a Highlight Table in Tableau

Following are the steps to create Tableau Highlight Table multiple measures.

i. If you haven’t already done so, follow the steps in the recipe Creating a text table (crosstab) to create the starting text table.
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ii. From Measures, drag Worldwide Gross Amount to Color in the Marks card.

iii. Change the mark on the Marks card to Square.

iv. Click on the drop-down arrow beside the color legend and choose Edit colors….
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v. Choose the Orange-Blue Light Diverging palette. Select the Stepped Color, and specify 5 steps.

vi. Click on the drop-down arrow beside the color legend and choose Edit title….

vii. Edit the title of the color legend to display Worldwide Gross.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned about the Tableau highlight table by row, how to create it with the change Highlight color.

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