Custom Number Formatting with Unicode characters in Tableau

The formatting cheat sheet is linked below. Custom number formatting in Tableau provides lots of flexibility for displaying the same data in many different ways. See the two blog posts below for many examples with formatting codes you can copy and paste.
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[@PatrickBateman12420]

Thanks for sharing, Marc! I didn't remember the positive | negative | neutral - cool stuff!

[@MarcReid]

Thanks, Franco. Glad it's useful.

[@matthiasgiger1875]

Thanks Marc, this I used to use very often and it is super helpful to know where it is.
Now, I do it the IBCS way to shrink the cognitive load: I declare the KPI and units in the title of each chart and do the in Thousands in Millions maths based on the window_avg.

[@MarcReid]

Thanks for the comment, Matthias.

[@Bobby-dz6xi]

Thanks for sharing. How can we show negative values on "hh:mm:ss" format please ?

[@MarcReid]

I think this forum post will help guide you in the right direction: community.tableau.com/s/question/0D54T00000C5yWvSAJ/time-difference-is-displayed-as-negative

[@SillyEngineer]

Thank you for this tutorial, if i may ask, I have a data set with a column of values, some values has 1k , 2k and some normal decimal 500, 600, how do i normalise this column to be all decimal not string so i can apply calculations?

[@MarcReid]

Hi - I'd recommend posting this question on the Tableau forums: community.tableau.com/s/explore-forums

[@f1r3shoot]

Can we make a color logic for this symbols ? For example: green arrow - for positive, red - for negative. Or maybe some more difficult.
In text table only.
Dual axis tables are so bad :(

[@MarcReid]

Hi, it's not possible directly in the formatting pane, unfortunately. However, you can achieve that effect using multiple calculations. e.g. in this blog: vizzingdata.com/tableau-tips-conditional-formatting-on-multiple-measures/