How to Highlight a Single Column in Tableau

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“Can Tableau do conditional formatting?”

For this week’s video, I focus on how you can use either a calculation or some inventive custom color applications to get a desired column of data to pop out to the user in a text table. This is particularly handy when you want to narrow your user’s focus on a specific section of the worksheet while keeping the rest of the information there for reference.

[ShahrukhKhan-ldwu]

Thank you so much, No one on Youtube shown this video of formatting only specific columns but you did. Thank you so much

[ramprasanth]

Thanks a lot for helping to solve the problem. Ive been stuck for an hour with it and this came clutch few hours before my deadline

[baddogrc]

Thanks for making this video. It was a huge help!

[abhinavsingh]

Bro you're the GOAT. Thanks for this.

[MaryTurczynski]

Awesome! Nice 'simple' approach to this task compared to what I have seen.

[gwendolynbutler]

This is awesome! Is there a way to highlight the column heading as well? Thanks

[adriacometmartinez]

I could solve a problem in my job with your video. Thank you so much! Keep it up! 🤙

[kanonsaga]

This video help me with an issue in my job, thank you so much for your help!!!! keep going!!!!

[michaelbaptist]

Thanks very much for this! I had an issue, so when I apply the legend in the way that you do, it applies to text colour, not to background cell colour - anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

[dkliuiko]

Thanks for “use separate legend” bottom!!! I was searching for this option 😊

[DataFam]

Thx Eric, and congrats for the new logo 😀

[sudeshnasen]

Thanks for sharing this video. I am facing a similar scenario but what I need is to color different measures based on a condition. When I am dragging measure values to colors like the way you did I am unable to drive it via any condition. Could you please help me here

[HarshaBharti-iz]

Suppose I would like to add a ratio column, which is going to be dimension, at the end on table, any suggestion how can I add it? And I wish to highlight this dimension column. what instead of segment we can different columns like months, Variance, Target. and need to colour code only one column.

[KyleSilverthorn-hx]

Hi, this is very helpful! Gained a new subscriber here, thank you so much!

One issue I ran into with doing the colored by squares, is the Grand Total goes away. Is there anything I can do about that? Thanks!

[oguzhanorhan]

Thanks for detailed explanation which solved my problem, it's ridiculous that we have to go through this complicated steps just to highlight a column. I had to highlight 32 columns manually which took me 20 mins

[zaghloulabdelilah]

Thank you, but in situation if we have need 3 colors as red for negatif, white for 0 and green for positif, how could we do as best aproach ?

[kunalborge]

similarly can we highlight texts of the column in tableau

[RajKamalAnkit]

We have a table with four column Sub- category, Profit, Quantity, sale. how can we format the sales tables in tableau based on given condition sale < 5000 then REd
5000 and 15000 then yellow
15000 and 30000 the gray
above 30000 then green.

[Oceanooo]

As in the way, I got rows in different color instead of columns🤣. Why?