A Tableau Desktop analyst uses File > Export > PowerPoint to share insights. When the export completes, what should they expect to appear on the resulting PowerPoint slides?
Only the underlying data tables for each sheet, displayed as editable PowerPoint tables.
Hyperlinked thumbnails that open the original Tableau workbook when clicked, leaving slides otherwise blank.
A static image of each exported sheet or dashboard reflecting current filter settings, with no interactive functionality.
Fully interactive visualizations where filters, tooltips, and highlight actions continue to work inside PowerPoint.
Export to PowerPoint creates a static representation of the workbook. Tableau generates one slide per selected sheet or dashboard, embedding a snapshot image that reflects the data's current filtered state. Interactive capabilities-such as clickable filters, highlighting, tooltip exploration, or web‐embedded links-are removed because PowerPoint cannot host Tableau's interactivity. Therefore, an analyst will receive non-interactive images only. Options describing live interactivity or hyperlinks surviving the export are incorrect, while options limiting the export to just data tables are also wrong.
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