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description: You can drill deeper into your data to explore the underlying information and surface hidden insights.
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# Drill Deeper Into Data

You can drill deeper into your data to explore the underlying information and surface hidden insights.

### Required Editions

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              <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d177041e72 ">To view visualizations:</td>

              <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d177041e72 ">Use CRM Analytics</td>

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1. Select the data you want to drill into by clicking datapoints in a chart or rows in a table.
    
    For multiple selections, continue clicking, or click and drag to use a selection box. To deselect datapoints or rows, click them. To undo all selections, click the space just outside the datapoints or table.
    
    ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/images/icon_note.png)
    
    Note Drill selections are not available in values tables.
    
    ![horizontal bar chart with bars selected](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_explorer_bar_selection.png)
2. To open the Drill Into This By... menu, right-click the data or click ![Drill button icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_icon_drill_menu.png).
    
    ![horizontal bar chart with one bar selected and drill menu](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_explorer_drill.png)
3. To view the underlying data for a dimension, select it from the Drill Into This By... menu.
    
    A new visualization grouped by the selected dimension and filtered by the selected data appears in place of the previous visualization.
    
    ![horizontal bar chart showing selected data showing the selected dimension](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_explorer_bar_drill_result.png)
    
    To return to the previous table or visualization, click ![explorer undo button](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_explorer_undo_button.png).