# tableau Tableau Reader (reader)

## Content

- [Full documentation](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/llms-full.txt)

- [Color Legend](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/colors.md): The color legend can either be categorical or quantitative
- [Creating a PDF File](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/pdf.md): You can print one or more views to a PDF document
- [Exporting Data or Views](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/reader_export.md): You can export the data from a workbook or export an image that represents a view, to other applications for presentations and documents
- [Filtering Data](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/reader_filter.md): Use filtering to select a subset of the data in the view to focus on that data or to exclude data from the view
- [Interacting with Views](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/interact.md): A workbook's author might have added features to the workbook that let you interact with views
- [Opening Workbooks](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/open.md): In Tableau Reader, you can open packaged workbooks that were created using Tableau Desktop or Tableau Server
- [Printing Worksheets](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/print.md): Specify page setup options and print one or more worksheets
- [Publishing and Exporting](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/reader_publish.md): Share the views and data in a workbook as well as include them in presentations and documents
- [Reader Layout](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/layout.md): When you open a workbook, it opens in the Reader window where you can view and interact with the data
- [Reverting Workbooks in Tableau Reader](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/revert.md): You may want to undo all of the changes you've made to a workbook and just start back at how it was when you opened it
- [Setting a Preferred Language](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/language.md): You can set Tableau to display the user interface (menus, messages, etc
- [Shape Legend](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/Shapes.md): The shape legend can only represent categorical data, that is discrete categories such as products and regions
- [Size Legend](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/Size.md): The size legend can either be categorical or quantitative
- [Sorting Data](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/reader_sort.md): In Reader you can sort items in a table based on a measure used in the view
- [Tableau Help](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/help.md)
- [Tableau Reader Help](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/reader_welcome.md): Use Tableau Reader to open and interact with packaged workbooks with extracted data sources that have been created in Tableau Desktop
- [Useful Tableau Terms](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/terms.md): The following table describes some of the common terms that are used in the Reader help
- [Using Actions to Access Linked Data](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/reader_hyperlinks.md): Some views might contain actions, which relate information in one view with other views or link to external information
- [Using Legends](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/legends.md): Tableau Reader uses color, size, and shape to encode the view with additional information
- [Using Page Playback](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/pages_shelf.md): A view can be broken down into a series of pages so you can better analyze how a specific field affects the rest of the data in a view
- [Using Presentation Mode](/tableau/current/en-us/reader/desktop/presentation_mode.md): As you interact with your view, you might want to share your findings with others using Presentation Mode