You will have noticed, dear reader, that a lot of the images I use in the blog are screenshots of the workbook while it's being edited in Tableau Public, before publishing. Tableau has spared a thought for those like me, and from the latest version allows me to export to PowerPoint even before publishing to Tableau Public.
So from this :
So from this :
we go to this:
It is basically a powerpoint with the image exports of the sheets, but still quite handy! As a general rule when I want to put Tableau visualisations into powerpoint I observe two rules:
- Export the view and legend(s) separately into separate png files, so that the legend does not become diminutively small
- When resizing the inserted png file, make sure I keep the aspect ratio of the original.