Worksheet transparency (2018.3)

A long-awaited feature is the Worksheet transparency. It is a great addition, allowing you to build better visualizations; but it's also an open door to terrible practices and designs.

Data is the most crucial element in data visualization—not the design. The design is important, as it's a vector of success for your Dashboards, but it's not the primary concern. Please, always focus on the clarity of the data, and keep in mind the Data-Ink Ratio introduced by Edward Tufte: https://infovis-wiki.net/wiki/Data-Ink_Ratio.

To make the background of a Worksheet transparent, follow these steps:

  1. Click on Format... in the Worksheet options, as highlighted in the following screenshot:
  1. Click on the third icon, Shading ...

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