Tableau Cookbook – Recipes for Data Visualization

Formatting across our entire workbook

So far we have been working on our My first Tableau Workbook and we have created multiple sheets, dashboards, and storyboards. Now, let us say that we need to follow a consistent font type across our entire workbook. If we decide to go to every single individual sheet and change the font type, it is going to be very difficult and time consuming. In earlier versions of Tableau, this was often the most challenging part. However, since version 10.0, Tableau has made provisions for us to change certain aspects of formatting and make them consistent across the entire workbook.

Let us look at the following recipe to see how it is done.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will continue using our My first Tableau Workbook ...