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# Get Details About Fields and Sheets in a Workbook

When you want to see details about the elements in use in a viz, select the **Worksheet** menu, and then click **Describe Sheet**.

For details about a field (such as data role, data type, domain, aggregation, calculation formula), click **Describe** in a field's context menu in the **Data** pane. You can then share those details with someone else by copying that summary text.

**Note**: For related information, see these blog posts from Tableau Visionaries Ryan Sleeper (PlayfairData) and Bridget Cogley (TableauFit): [3 Ways the Describe Feature Can Help You Use Tableau](https://playfairdata.com/3-ways-describe-feature-can-help-use-tableau/) and [10 Intro Tips to Tableau When You’re Handed Someone Else’s Workbooks](https://www.tableaufit.com/10-intro-tips-tableau-youre-handed-someone-elses-workbooks/).

## Display sheet details

Click Worksheet \> Describe Sheet when editing a viz to view a description of the workbook, data source, fields and layout of the current worksheet. This summary includes the Caption in the first line, but provides other important summary information. You can then copy and paste this information into other applications.

![Describe a worksheet via the worksheet tab.](/tableau/current/en-us/public/desktop/en-us/Img/describesheet.gif)

**Note:** If you have Trend Lines turned on, the Describe Sheet dialog box includes information about the trend line model. For more information, see [Assess Trend Line Significance](https://help.tableau.com/current/public/desktop/en-us/trendlines_add.htm#significance). If you have Forecasting turned on, the Describe Sheet dialog box includes information about estimated data. For more information, see [Forecast Descriptions](https://help.tableau.com/current/public/desktop/en-us/forecast_describe.htm).

## Display field details

When you click Describe in the context menu of a field in the Data pane, you can view a description of the workbook, data source, fields and layout of the current worksheet. This summary includes the Caption in the first line, but provides other important summary information. You can then copy and paste this information into other applications.

![Describe a field on the data pane.](/tableau/current/en-us/public/desktop/en-us/Img/describefield.gif)

## Find a field in the Data pane

From a field in the view you can easily locate that same field in the Data pane. This can be useful when you need to work a specific field in a long list of fields or when fields have similar names.

To find a field in the data pane:

1. Right-click on the pill in the view to open the drop-down menu
2. Select **Find in Data pane**

The field in the Data pane is highlighted, just as it is when you click on it.

![the drop down menu for the field Genre and the same field higlighted in the Data pane](/tableau/current/en-us/public/desktop/en-us/Img/inspectdata_find-in-data-pane.png)