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