Start Page

Applies to: Tableau Desktop

The start page in Tableau Desktop is a central location from which you can do the following:

  • Connect to your data
  • Open your most recently used workbooks
  • Discover and explore content produced by the Tableau community

The start page consists of three panes: Connect, Open, and Discover.

Connect

Connect to data.

On the Connect pane, you can do the following:

  • Connect to data: Under To a File connect to data stored in Microsoft Excel files, text files, Access files, Tableau extract files, and statistical files, such as SAS, SPSS, and R. Under To a Server, connect to data stored in OData, Google Sheets or connect to data using the Web Data Connector. For more information about how to connect to Google Sheets, see Google Drive. For more information about the Web Data Connector, see Web Data Connector 2.0

Open

Click the Open from Tableau Public link to find workbooks you have saved to Tableau Public.

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