Conditionally Formatting Cell Background Color for Individual Measures This is a simple trick to change the cell background color for Tableau measures and you will be excited once you do it. Go to he worksheet where you need to conditional format multiple measures for color background. Drag Measure Values in to the Colors shelf. Change the Marks to Square as shown below: Click on down arrow for the color shelf(on added measure values as shown in the picture below) Select 'Use Seperate Legends" Now you will see the legends for each of the measure t make the life easier to format the color legend for each measure as shown below. Click on each o the color legend and change the legend color and step color to customize individual background of the measures. Repeat the above step for every measure on the Measures Values card to customize the background color.