You have a scatter plot showing Quantity on one axis and Profit on the other. To emphasize which products return higher sales dollars, you drag the Sales measure onto the Size target inside the Marks card. What happens to the marks after you complete this step?
Tableau removes the Profit axis, ranks products by Sales, and sizes marks only by their rank position.
Marks are replaced by pie charts whose slices represent Sales and Profit proportions.
Each mark scales continuously so its area reflects the aggregated Sales value, and a size legend appears.
Sales is applied to color instead, leaving all marks the same size and disabling the Size slider.
When you drop a continuous measure such as Sales on the Size target of the Marks card, Tableau aggregates the measure (by default as SUM) for every mark in the view and scales each mark's area proportionally to that value. A size legend is also created so viewers can interpret the encoding. The other options describe behavior that does not occur: Tableau does not automatically convert marks into pie charts, reorder axes, or disable the Size slider.
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