Keyboard Shortcuts for Tableau
Using keyboard shortcuts can be a real time saver, It can help you navigate through and make selections to your dashboards that much faster. Here are some of the best shortcuts available in Tableau that will help you to your journey to become a Zen Master. Checkout the Hints/Tips After you are done with these
Ctrl + H: Using this shortcut key user can switch in and out of presentation mode
Alt + Shift + P: This is used to place the selected field on “Pages” shelf
Ctrl + S: To save the Tableau workbook
Ctrl + W: This shortcut key is used for swapping fields between “Rows” and “Columns”.
Ctrl + P: To print the complete dashboard or sheet of Tableau workbook
Ctrl + D: To connect new data source
Ctrl + Command + F: Enter full screen in Mac
Ctrl + 1: Open or close Show Me Card
Alt + Shift + F: This is used to place the selected field on “Filters” shelf
Ctrl + W: This shortcut key is used for swapping fields between “Rows” and “Columns”.
Alt + Shift + Backspace: This shortcut key is used to clear all the contents from current worksheet
Ctrl + A: This shortcut key is used to “select all data” in sheet of tableau workbook.
Ctrl + C: This is used to “copy” the selected data in the tableau workbook sheet
Ctrl + Z: This is used to Undo your last step
Crtl + Alt + C: Create a Calculated field
Esc: Clears selection
Using function keys:
F1: This opens up the “Help” window, where user can read about different functionalities of tableau
Alt + F4: This close the current workbook
F5: To refresh the data sources
F9: This runs the updates and tableau desktop start getting updated
F12: Goes back to last saved state
F7: Presentation Mode
Place fields directly in Columns/Rows shelf
Alt + Shift + C: This shortcut key helps user to directly place the selected field in “Columns” shelf
Alt + Shift + R: This shortcut key helps user to directly place the selected field in “Rows” shelf
Moving fields to Marks card
Alt + Shift + O: This is used to place the field on “Color” marks card
Alt + Shift + L: This is used to place the field on “Detail” marks card
Alt + Shift + I: This is used to place the selected field on “Size” marks card
Alt + Shift + T: This is used to place the selected field on “Text” marks card
Adjusting Data Table
Ctrl + B: Press this key to reduce the cell size in data table
Ctrl + Shift + B: Press this key to increase the cell size in data table
Ctrl + Left Arrow: Press this key to make the rows narrower
Ctrl + Right Arrow: Press this key to make the rows wider
Ctrl + Up Arrow: Press this key to make the columns larger
Ctrl + Down Arrow: Press this key to make the columns shorter
To do File operations:
Ctrl + M: To open a new worksheet
Ctrl + N: To open a new workbook
Ctrl + O: To open existing Tableau workbook
To navigate between sheets:
Ctrl + PgDn: To navigate through the sheets/dashboards on right side
Ctrl + PgUp: To navigate through the sheets/dashboards on left side
Ctrl+ Tab: Cycle through sheets