Totals for Tableau Text Tables Tips and Tricks

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Description:
Text tables can be overwhelming because they contain a lot of information without using many pre-attentive attributes to draw the users' attention toward areas of interest. One of the best ways to add value to a text table in Tableau is to add totals!

There are numerous types of totals you can add to a Tableau worksheet. You can add totals for Rows, Columns, and can even choose which dimension-level you want sub-totals to display at. In addition, there are some workarounds you can use to display multiple types of totals at the same time.

Ready to add the full arsenal of Tableau totals to your skillset? Check out this video!

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Totals for Multiple Measure Text Tables
1:52 Totals for Single Measure Text Tables
3:47 Remove Totals
4:18 Subtotals
6:20 Aggregations of Totals
8:35 Upcoming Classes
9:00 Formatting Totals
9:47 Totals for Highlight Tables
11:06 Add Multiple Totals to Text Tables

[ryanwesley]

Really like your videos, they are incredibly helpful. Wouldn't have been able to deliver the reporting hub I built for my Operation Unit without them. Have gotten tons of positive feedback.

[shoppersdream]

Very Nice, thanks! Can you please tell me how would you remove "NULLS" if you see below "GRAND TOTAL" a new row with the title "NULLS". Do you have any videos on this issue? Thanks

[shoppersdream]

Thanks! Please look at your 4:42 time of your video, I don't have these options. I can double click on Totals but I don't see these horizontal icons you are showing. Am I need to make some ajustments? Thanks