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    Month and Week Day Names Abbreviations

    Published: 22 Mar 2017
    Last Modified Date: 03 Jan 2019

    Question

    How to display month or week day abbreviations using either three-letter abbreviations (Jan, Feb, Mar, etc.) or one-letter abbreviations (for example, M, T, W, etc.).

    Environment

    Tableau Desktop

    Answer

    1. Drag the Date dimension (as a discrete field) to the view and choose Month or Weekday. 
    2. Right-click the date dimension or the header in the view and select Format. 
    3. In the Header section, select Abbreviation or First Letter in the "Date" menu. 
    To view the above steps in action, see the video below: 

    Additional Information

    The above steps cannot be applied to continuous dates, even if the dates have been changed as "Discrete".

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