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Finding the best documentation for Tableau & making sure it's the correct one.

I often get asked for help in comments to my videos and quite often I can copy the key terms from most questions, paste them in google and land on the TOP hit which at least for me is 90% of the time a link to tableau documentation. In this video, I show you how to find the correct documentation and make sure you have all the resources you need to learn Tableau without needing any other resources.

Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Finding the help pages on the Tableau website
00:57 - Using Google to get to Tableau help
01:24 - Select your version of tableau on the help pages
02:44 - Grab the PDF
03:51 - Check the operating system
04:41 - The documentation is fantastic
05:39 - Also look out for knowledge base articles

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