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Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition
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Learning Tableau 2019 - Third Edition

by Joshua N. Milligan
March 2019
Beginner
504 pages
11h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Custom number formatting

When you alter the format of a number, you can select from several standard formats, as well as a custom format. The custom format allows you to enter a format string that Tableau will use to format the number. Your format string may use combinations of hash/pound (#), commas, negative signs, and parentheses, along with a literal string enclosed in quotation marks to indicate how the number should display.

The format string allows for up to three entries, separated by semi-colons to represent positive, negative, and zero formats.

Here are some examples, assuming the positive number is 34,331.336 and the negative number is -8,156.7777:

Notice how Tableau rounds the display of the number based on the format string. ...

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