The axis gives it away
The trend line is the story you want to tell; the y-axis labels next to it print your actual revenue. Same for KPI tiles: the sparkline is fine, the headline number is not.
Dashboards on a call
Present a dashboard without showing the numbers
The trend is the story; the figures are confidential. Draw a box over the axis, the legend or a KPI tile, keep the shape of every chart on screen, and walk a live audience through Power BI, Tableau or Google Sheets without reading out your revenue.
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- Keep the shape, hide the figures
Updated August 2026
Quick answer
Draw a box over the figures and present the shape. A drawn box is precise to the pixel and works on every surface a dashboard uses, including canvas-rendered grids like Google Sheets where click-to-blur has no element to grab. A dashboard embedded from another domain can be blurred as one whole frame. And with Premium, saved blurs restore before the first paint, so refreshing live data mid-call never flashes the real numbers.
The risk
A dashboard is designed to make numbers legible. That is the problem.
Everything a BI tool does to make figures readable at a glance works just as well for the investor, candidate or customer on the other end of the call.
Names in the rows
Under every chart sits a table: customer names, deal sizes, churn reasons. One scroll past it on a live call and the audience has read your pipeline.
The refresh flash
Live dashboards refresh, and every refresh redraws the real figures from scratch. A blur that has to be re-applied after load flashes the numbers to the whole call first.
The right gesture
Dashboards are built from three kinds of surface
Most blur tools quietly fail on two of them. Here is the honest map: what each surface is, and which gesture covers it.
DOM dashboards: click works
Salesforce, Stripe, HubSpot, most admin panels and every HTML table render real elements. Click a KPI tile, a column, or a row to frost exactly that, and hold Alt and scroll to grow the selection.
Canvas surfaces: draw the box
Google Sheets paints its grid on a canvas, and many chart libraries do the same, so there is no cell or label element to click. The drawn box does not care what painted the pixels: drag it over the axis, the legend, or a column of cells, and it covers exactly that region.
Embeds: it depends on the origin
Blurr.ing reaches inside same-origin iframes at any depth, so an embed served from your own domain can be blurred cell by cell. A dashboard embedded from another domain (a Looker, Metabase or Power BI iframe) is sealed off by the browser and can only be blurred as one whole frame.
When in doubt, draw the box. It is the one gesture that works identically on all three surfaces, it is free and unlimited, and removing it afterwards is never gated.
Step by step
Blur a dashboard in five steps
Do it once before the call. If the dashboard is one you present every week, Premium makes the setup permanent.
- 1
Open the dashboard you will present
Pull up the Power BI report, Tableau view, Google Sheet or admin panel before the call, with the data in the state you plan to show.
- 2
Open the Blurr.ing toolbar
Press Ctrl + Shift + Y (Cmd + Shift + Y on Mac) or click the Blurr.ing icon to summon the on-page toolbar on any site.
- 3
Draw boxes over the figures
Drag a box over the y-axis labels, the legend, a KPI headline, or a whole column of numbers. A drawn box is precise to the pixel and works on every surface, including canvas grids where there is no element to click.
- 4
Dial it in, then save the set
With Premium, push the intensity up to a heavy 20px so nothing reads on a compressed video call, pin a blur so it stays put over a sticky header while you scroll, and the whole set is saved and restored before first paint on every later visit.
- 5
Share the tab and present
Pick the single dashboard tab in Zoom, Google Meet or Teams. The blur is CSS in the live page, so the call transmits already-blurred pixels. On the free plan, re-draw after any refresh; with Premium, refresh freely.
Does it work on Power BI, Tableau and Google Sheets?
Yes, with one distinction worth understanding. Blurr.ing blurs anything rendered inside the browser page, but BI tools render in different ways. Power BI and Tableau mix real DOM elements (headers, filter panes, tables) with charts drawn on canvas; Google Sheets paints the entire cell grid on canvas. Click-to-blur and text selection can only target elements the browser knows about, so on canvas they have nothing to grab. The drawn box works everywhere because it covers a region of the page rather than an element in it. Salesforce, Stripe, HubSpot and most admin panels are plain DOM, where all three gestures work. The one hard limit: a dashboard embedded from another domain is a cross-origin iframe, and it can only be blurred as one whole frame from the page around it, never cell by cell.
Can I hide the numbers but keep the chart shape?
That is exactly what a drawn box is for. The blur covers only the pixels under the rectangle, so a thin box down the y-axis hides the scale while the whole curve stays sharp, and a box over a KPI headline leaves its sparkline untouched. Drag the handles until the box sits precisely on the labels. With Premium you can push the intensity to a heavy 20px so compressed video cannot make the digits out, pin a blur to a fixed screen spot so it holds its position over a sticky header while you scroll, and have the whole arrangement saved: the next time you open that dashboard, the blurs are re-applied before the first paint, so refreshing live data mid-call never flashes the real figures. On the free plan the same boxes work, they simply need re-drawing after a refresh.
Keep exploring
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FAQ
Blurring dashboards, answered
Can I blur a single column in Google Sheets?
Draw a box over the column. The Sheets grid is painted on a canvas, so there is no cell element for click-to-blur to target; the drawn box does not care and covers exactly the pixels you choose. Check that it still covers the column after you scroll, and with Premium you can pin a blur to a fixed screen spot for long scrolls.
Does Blurr.ing work on Power BI and Tableau dashboards?
Yes, for anything rendered inside the browser page. Power BI and Tableau mix DOM elements with canvas-drawn charts, so click-to-blur lands on some parts and not others; the drawn box works on all of them, which makes it the reliable gesture for BI tools. The exception is a dashboard embedded from another domain, which can only be blurred as one whole frame.
Will refreshing live data flash the real numbers?
On the free plan, yes: a refresh clears free blurs, so re-draw before you resume sharing. With Premium, saved blurs are re-applied before the page’s first paint, so you can refresh a live dashboard mid-call and the figures come back already blurred, with no flash. The same restore covers single-page-app navigation, iframes and the back button.
Can someone on the call remove the blur?
No. The blur is applied inside your browser, so Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or any recording tool only ever transmits already-blurred pixels; there is nothing on the receiving end to peel off. The unblurred data still exists in the page on your own machine, which is exactly why blurring before you share beats trying to edit a recording afterwards.
Can I blur an embedded Looker or Metabase dashboard?
If the embed is served from the same origin as the page around it, yes, at any depth, element by element. If it comes from another domain, the browser seals it off and Blurr.ing can only blur the entire frame from the outside: one box over the whole embed, which for a screen share is often exactly what you want.