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Tableau also offers two additional formatting styles, numbers and dots. 

  1. Open the Layout tab in the Story pane.
  2. Under Navigator Style, choose Numbers:

In your Story, it will look as follows:

  1. In the same menu, you can also select only dots to be displayed:If you want to get rid of left/right arrows, just deselect the Show arrows checkbox.
When you are dealing with busy charts or dashboards, both of these options can save you some space. As we said before, strive to keep it simple and remember that less is more!