Making Data Presentable: Tableau Exports to Powerpoint & Word
Tableau allows you to export your charts and dashboards to Microsoft PowerPoint and Word as static images or interactive objects. It can be useful only if you want to include your Tableau visualizations in a presentation or document.
Data that is kept in different places is connected to and extracted using Tableau. It can obtain information from any platform conceivable. Tableau can extract data from a variety of data sources, including cloud-based databases from Google Cloud SQL, Microsoft Azure SQL, Amazon Web Services, and Excel and PDF files to complicated databases like Oracle.
Ready data connectors are available when Tableau is launched, allowing you to connect to any database. Tableau supports a different amount of data connectors depending on the version you have purchased.
The extracted data can either be connected live or extracted to Tableau Desktop, which is the data engine for Tableau. Here, the data engineer and analyst collaborate with the retrieved data to create visualisations. Users have access to the produced dashboards as a static file. Users who get dashboards utilise Tableau Reader to examine the file.
It is possible to publish data from Tableau Desktop to Tableau Server. Collaboration, distribution, governance, security models, and automation features are available on this enterprise platform. The Tableau server improves the end users’ ability to access the files from any location, including a desktop, mobile device, or email.
When a workbook is exported to Microsoft PowerPoint format, the selected sheets are displayed as static PNG images on different slides. All of the story points can be exported as separate slides if you choose to export a story sheet. Any filters that are currently being used in Tableau are represented in the presentation that is exported.
To export a chart or dashboard to PowerPoint or Word from Tableau, follow these steps:
- Open the chart or dashboard you want to export in Tableau.
- Click on “File” menu and select “Export.”
- In the Export dialog box, select “PowerPoint” or “Word” as the export type.
- Specify the location and file name for the exported file.
- Click “Export” to save the chart or dashboard as a PowerPoint or Word file.
By exporting your Tableau visualizations to PowerPoint or Word, you can include them in presentations or documents and share them with others. You can also choose to export your visualizations as static images or as interactive objects that can be edited or manipulated in PowerPoint or Word.