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Where to look when formatting gets stuck in Tableau

You can format settings for fonts, alignment, shading, borders, lines and tooltips at the worksheet level, however, sometimes Tableau doesn't do what you think it should.  In this video, I show you some quirks with formatting.

Format Worksheets in Tableau - Comprehensive Tutorial for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pursdur27A

Timestamps
00:00:00 intro
00:00:12 Origin of this video
00:00:57 The best formating video on tableau anywhere
00:01:30 The problem
00:02:09 Formatting issues in our chart
00:03:06 Change formatting metadata at a data source level
00:07:46 Columns and rows in formatting
00:08:49 Fomratting pane options
00:11:03 Change the colour of the header
00:15:32 Sometimes formatting gets buggy
00:15:41 Formatting Bugging out
00:21:00 Table formating
00:28:35 Other thoughts

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