# Spell check only in Tableau Cloud Web Authoring | Tableau 2024.2

> 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:** 2024-06-26
- **Format:** Video · 5 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, dashboards, tooltips)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/spell-check-only-in-tableau-cloud-web-authoring-tableau-2024-2
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k-KThBeCsI

I demonstrate the new spell check feature in Tableau 2024.2, which is exclusive to Cloud web authoring. I tour the places it works, including tooltips, titles, axes and dashboard text boxes, and explain that it relies on the browser's native spell check rather than something Tableau built itself.

## Key takeaways

- Spell check in Tableau 2024.2 is only available in Cloud web authoring, not Tableau Desktop.
- It works anywhere with free text fields, including tooltips, titles, axis edits and dashboard text boxes.
- It does not work inside calculation comments because the calculation window expects syntax.
- The feature relies on the browser's native spell check, so Tableau doesn't do the heavy lifting and you benefit from browser improvements.
- Tableau can apply spell check in fields like tooltips because it can distinguish between actual field references and plain text.

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/spell-check-only-in-tableau-cloud-web-authoring-tableau-2024-2

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