# How to Show  and hide sort controls in Tableau Desktop 2019.2 and newer

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2020-01-10
- **Format:** Video · 2 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (formatting)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-show-and-hide-sort-controls-in-tableau-desktop-2019-2-and-newer
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/vbk0f-iTz-0

I demonstrate the show and hide sort controls feature introduced in Tableau Desktop 2019.2. I show how the hover sort icon cycles through descending, ascending and data source order, and how to toggle the control's visibility from the worksheet menu.

## Key takeaways

- Hovering above bars reveals a sort icon that cycles through descending, ascending and back to data source order on repeated clicks
- You can hide sort controls from end users via the Worksheet menu by unticking 'Show Sort Controls'
- Even with controls hidden, sorting can still be set manually through the axis caret's Sort options
- Data source order in ascending returns the view to its original exported sort

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-show-and-hide-sort-controls-in-tableau-desktop-2019-2-and-newer

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