The table visual

The table visual is perfect for looking at many values (measures) for a category. To really make the table shine, we will also want to take advantage of the Conditional Formatting option that is available to us. In our example, we will be using the Sales Territory Region as our category and looking at four different values for it.

Let's look at, setting up the visual:

  1. Rename the blank page we are working on from Page 1 to Tabular Data.
  2. Select the Table visual and resize it to take up a little less than half the report canvas. Notice, similar to the slicer, that there is only one area in which to populate fields, called Values.
  3. The first field we will want to select will be Sales Territory Region from the Sales Territory ...

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