Focusing on visual elements
When viewing visuals, you can choose data that you want to focus on or exclude. To perform this choice, choose an element such as a bar or bubble, or a row or column header.
Focusing on or excluding data causes Amazon QuickSight to create a filter and show only the data that you selected.
![](images/focus-on-element.png)
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To remove the filter, choose Filters at left and then disable or delete the filter. You can also use Undo to remove a filter.
If your visual has a legend that shows categories (dimensions), you can click on the values in the legend to see a menu of available actions. For example, suppose that your bar chart has a field in the Color or Group/Color field well. The bar chart menu displays the actions that you can choose by clicking or right-clicking on a bar, such as the following:
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Focusing on, or excluding, visual elements
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Changing colors of visual elements
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Drilling down into a hierarchy
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Custom actions activated from the menu, including filtering or URL actions
The following screenshot shows how to use the legend for focusing on, or excluding, a dimension.
![](images/visual-elements-legend-focus.png)