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How to Display Zeros as Blanks or Dashes - Tableau

Updated: Apr 23, 2019

You will learn about formatting zeros as Blanks or Dashes, without hampering the grand totals in Tableau.


Every day we come across numerous posts, blogs and even video tutorials on how to create brilliant but complex charts, that might not be quite useful at your own organization. Some require data densification while others don't end up well with huge data sets.


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Here is how we can custom format measures to display zeros as either blanks or dashes:


Display Zeros as Blanks

From the Data pane (where the Dimensions and Measures are displayed), right-click the field that you want to format

  • Select Default Properties > Number Format

  • Select Custom

  • Enter  #,##0.000; -#,##0.000;""

  • Finally, click OK


Display Zeros as Dashes

From the Data pane (where the Dimensions and Measures are displayed), right-click the field that you want to format

  • Select Default Properties > Number Format

  • Select Custom

  • Enter  #,##0.000;-#,##0.000;-

  • Finally, click OK

 


Avdhesh Gaur has 5+ years of work experience with Tableau desktop, taking down various business requirements by building Data-driven Business Intelligence models using SQL, Hive, Tableau, and other Statistical data analysis Techniques.

In a nutshell, He transforms data into visualizations to help organizations understand their business operations more visually.

Avdhesh got one of his submissions to Tableau accepted & placed in their permanent public knowledge database known as "Tableau Gallery" on 7th January 2019, which in a more cooler way we call Viz of the day

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