Edit Dashboards with Keyboard Shortcuts in Lightning Experience
From the Dashboard tab, you can create, edit, or delete a dashboard using nothing but
your keyboard. Use keystrokes to edit dashboards quickly and easily in Lightning Experience.
Required Editions
Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Essentials, Group (View Only), Professional,
Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer
Editions
Use these handy keyboard shortcuts while building or editing a dashboard.
Keyboard Shortcut
Description
Tab
Focus on next item in the dashboard
Shift+Tab
Focus on previous item in the dashboard
Spacebar
Select a widget to move or a widget corner to resize
Arrow keys
Move or resize a widget
Enter
Click a button
Ctrl+Z
Undo
Ctrl+Y
Redo
Ctrl+S
Save
Ctrl+N
Add widget
Esc
Cancel pending widget move or resize
As you tab through dashboard widgets, notice that the option to have a screen reader read
each chart’s dataset appears.
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