Most Salesforce admins are losing 30 to 60 minutes a day to actions they could be doing in half the clicks. Not because they’re slow — because nobody ever showed them the shortcut.

I run a quick “watch yourself work” exercise with admins all the time. Open a screen recorder, do your normal Tuesday morning, then watch it back at 2x. The clicks add up. Below are five of the highest-leverage shortcuts I see admins miss most often. None of them are exotic. All of them save real time.

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1. Press ? to see every keyboard shortcut

Lightning Experience has built-in keyboard shortcuts that almost nobody uses. Press the question mark key on any screen and you’ll get the full list. The two I use a hundred times a week: g s jumps straight to Setup, and / drops your cursor in the global search bar from anywhere.

If you do nothing else from this post, train yourself on those two. The Setup jump alone saves three to five seconds per trip, and you make a lot of trips to Setup.

2. Inline edit in list views

Double-click any cell in a list view and, if the field is editable, you can change it without opening the record. Apply your changes, hit save, and you’ve updated 30 records in the time it would take to open and save three.

Make sure your most-used list views include the fields you actually edit. If you’re inline-editing the same five fields every week, those five fields belong on that list view.

3. Pin Setup tabs

If you’re constantly bouncing between Object Manager, Permission Sets, and Flows, open each in a separate Setup tab and pin them. Setup behaves like a browser inside Salesforce. You can keep half a dozen tabs open at once and switch instantly instead of re-navigating from the home menu every time.

4. Schedule the reports you check anyway

If you open the same report every Monday morning to copy data into a status email, schedule that report to email itself to you (and the people on the email) on Sunday night. Open the report, click Subscribe, set the cadence, done. You’ll save the open-export-paste shuffle every single week.

5. Use Recent Items as your launchpad

Most admins re-search for the same accounts and records they were just looking at. The App Launcher’s Recent section, the global Recently Viewed list, and pinned favorites all do the same job: get you back to where you were in one click instead of three. Pin the records you live in. Use Recently Viewed for everything else.

Pick one, then layer in the rest

Don’t try to adopt all five at once. Pick the one that matches your worst current habit, use it for a week, and notice the difference. Then add the next.

The compound effect is real. Shave 20 minutes off a daily routine and you’ve got an extra full workweek a year to spend on the harder problems.