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In this lesson, you'll learn how to change the font sizes and colors for Title text in the Dashboard.
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Changing Font Sizes And Colors In The Dashboard
In this lesson, you'll learn how to change the font sizes and colors for Title text in the Dashboard.
When to use
Use these techniques whenever you want to style the font sizes or colors of Title text on your Dashboard.
Instructions
To edit a title, right click a particular headline title on the dashboard and choose "Edit Title". Make the changes on the box that pops up.
Hints & tips
- Right Click a Title and Choose "Edit Title"
- Change the font, font size, font color, and title itself.
- 00:04 Okay, in this video, I want to talk about changing some of the font colors and
- 00:07 sizes for some of the things in our dashboard here.
- 00:10 So you'll notice all of these things have titles, right?
- 00:13 Dog colors, dog breeds, dog names, dog breeds with license types.
- 00:17 And we can play around with all of these things color wise,
- 00:20 as well as content wise.
- 00:21 So all we have to do is come over here and right click around the title, and
- 00:25 you can click Edit title.
- 00:27 And here it's by default taking the sheet name but
- 00:31 if you wanted to change this you could we could go dog color pie chart, right?
- 00:35 I don't know why you would want to because it's obviously a pie chart.
- 00:38 But we do that click apply and boom that changes.
- 00:41 We can also change the color.
- 00:42 So we could play around with all of these things right in here.
- 00:45 So for instance, if we wanted it sort of dark purple, we could do that and
- 00:49 if we wanted to make it bold, we could do that.
- 00:52 If we wanted to make it bigger, do that and we click Apply, boom,
- 00:55 these things happen.
- 00:57 We can center it if we wanted to write it, all right?
- 01:01 We could play around with this stuff, I would leave that alone for now,
- 01:03 you could change the font as well.
- 01:05 So here are all the fonts that are on my computer right now I could choose through
- 01:08 all of them.
- 01:09 Just make sure anytime you make a change that you've highlighted the text
- 01:12 right here.
- 01:13 So for instance, if I'm just sitting here and I click unbold,
- 01:16 nothing has changed because I haven't highlighted it first.
- 01:20 I have to highlight and then click it then you can see it un-bolds.
- 01:23 I click Apply and happens up there.
- 01:25 So change that back to bold, apply, very cool.
- 01:29 So that's not the only thing we can do.
- 01:31 We can also right click here and we can hide the title if we don't want it.
- 01:35 Now it's gone completely.
- 01:37 If we want it back,
- 01:38 we have to come over to this little caret drop down menu right here and click Title.
- 01:41 You can see that pops right back, that's kind of cool.
- 01:45 We can format the title if we want to change more colors.
- 01:48 So we've changed the text color,
- 01:50 we can actually change all of the color for the title.
- 01:54 So you can come up here and give it some shading if we want.
- 01:57 So if we wanted to say pick this color right here, you see now it's shading and
- 02:01 you can change the transparency.
- 02:03 So we can scale it back so you can barely see it now and
- 02:06 make it a little bit more okay, it's a little more dark.
- 02:10 There we go all the way to 100 and it's not transparent at all.
- 02:14 So that's kind of interesting.
- 02:15 We can give it a border if we want.
- 02:16 So maybe like something like that, I don't know.
- 02:20 And you can play around you can make it dotted, spaced, you can set the thickness.
- 02:25 So if we want something like that or like that, just solid like that.
- 02:29 Very cool and if you want more colors besides this, we can click more colors and
- 02:33 you get a whole color wheel.
- 02:35 So you can come through here and pick anything you want, or
- 02:38 you could pull up a web browser and search for HTML color codes, and
- 02:42 you could pick a specific color code, and then you can enter it right there.
- 02:46 That's really handy.
- 02:47 If you have a very specific color that you want to use,
- 02:50 if your company has a specific color that it uses for its logos and things.
- 02:55 And the hex color code for that you could pop that in there.
- 02:59 And it's an easy way to do that, so that's very cool.
- 03:02 We can get out of here we can change the caption.
- 03:05 Now right now there isn't a caption.
- 03:07 So if we want a caption, that's going to be down here at the bottom,
- 03:10 we need to come over to this little caret click on here and then click caption.
- 03:13 You can see boom, a little caption pops up.
- 03:15 And same thing we can play with all of these colors, right?
- 03:19 Maybe try and keep it the same general color.
- 03:23 We can give this a border if we want.
- 03:25 All right?
- 03:26 Change these things around whenever you like.
- 03:31 Really easy and then when you're done with this,
- 03:33 you can either clear it to get rid of all those changes or you can come up here and
- 03:37 just exit out of there and that works fine.
- 03:39 That's a quick and easy way to change the text colors of your dashboard, and
- 03:43 also your captions, I suppose.
- 03:45 And like with everything in tableau, very easy to do.
- 03:47 So that's all for this video.
- 03:48 In the next video, we'll look at rearranging the vertical column.
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