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.

For more information about using screen readers with Salesforce, see Recommendations for Salesforce Accessibility in Salesforce Help.