#How to - Dummy Highlight

You may have noticed when you make a graph and select something, your selection is highlighted:

This graph changes the baseline for each sub-category selected and calculates the difference in sales from the selected category. 

In this case, this is not a useful function. To eliminate this problem, you can create a 'dummy highlight'.

Step-by-step:

  1. Create a calculated field and just write a random word that is not related to your data:
The word can be anything you want! Just put it in quotation marks or apostrophe's. 

2.  left-click and drag this calculated field into your details on the marks card.

This allows it to be in the view so you can set up a highlight action. 

3. Create a highlight action and configure as follows:

Now when you click on your graph, you shouldn't see any highlights!

Author:
Amelia Holland
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