About: Hi! I'm Eric with OneNumber. Thanks for checking out our channel. We appreciate the support! We love to help people with their Tableau problems. Feel free to comment, reach out directly, or check out our upcoming classes and office hours if you want to take Tableau to the next level ( ). Description: “Can Tableau do conditional formatting?” Lots of new Tableau users, especially with Excel skills, want to know if they can use Tableau like Excel. Tableau isn’t really designed like Excel. It’s not intended for data input, but rather data preparation and visualization. That said, a lot of features you might be used to from Excel like highlighting cells or highlighting rows of values are possible! (More here: 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. You can access the sample workbook built during the video on Tableau Public here: More about custom color palettes here: