Connect Tableau to a Tab Delimiter Text File

This article shows how to connect with the Tab delimiter text file, load its data into the Tableau desktop, and design a chart.

The below screenshot shows that each column is separated by tab space.

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Connect Tableau to a Tab Delimiter Text File

Clicking on the text file option will open the window to choose the Tab delimiter file.

Choose the File from hard drive

As you can see, the Tableau desktop loaded the file and automatically separated the columns using a Tab delimiter. For more Data Sources >> Click Here.

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If this is not the case, choose the Text File Properties.. option.

Text File Properties

By default, the desktop has chosen Tab as the Field separator. 

Check the Field Separator

If not, it has chosen a comma; the data is shown below.

Data For the Wrong Field Separator

Change the Field Separator to Tab from the list of available separators.

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Drag Education to Columns and Income to Rows shelf. Next, add the Education dimension to the Color shelf and Income to the Label. 

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