Starting from a crosstab, you want each cell's background color to reflect its measure value while still displaying the numbers. In the Marks card, which mark type do you switch to in order to create this highlight table effect?
A highlight table is essentially a text table that encodes the measure by cell color. In Tableau, this is achieved by changing the mark type from Text (used in a plain crosstab) to Square, then applying a color palette. Bar or Line marks draw shapes that would hide the numbers, and leaving the mark type on Automatic keeps the view as a standard crosstab without cell shading.
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