If Tableau won’t place the marks where we want them then we can generate our own X + Y coordinates whether by adding data or creating our own calculations. This is where we need to keep in mind one of the master Tableau concepts: everything is a scatterplot.

So at this point we’re stuck and can’t do anything about what Tableau is up to. In this view the mark layout–either no pills or only discrete (blue) pills on Rows and Columns– is generating a pane for each distinct combination of header values and then Tableau’s mark stacking algorithm is laying out the text. The manual sizing is problematic because it won’t dynamically adjust to the number of marks, and in the case of views with lots of marks like this one it takes a lot of effort to figure out what size will get all the marks, never mind that the list of values is really hard to read:Īnd while the Fit options are great at ensuring a view with only a few marks takes up the available space when there are many marks it ends up either not displaying values or creating overlapping values depending on the settings. Use the Fit options to dynamically Fit Width, Fit Height, or Entire View.Manually change the size of each pane by resizing the headers.Change the order of the text by sorting the Product Name dimension.The only options Tableau gives us in this case are to: There’s a whole bunch of ellipses (…) where there’s too much data to display. Here’s a demo view illustrating the problem: Not holiday presents, instead text wrapping in Tableau.

I recently got a request for help with a wrapping challenge.

Excel graph axis label wrap text