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page_title: Getting started
page_description: Getting started
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# Getting started
This guide will help you get started and acquainted with the Grafana user interface.

## Interface overview

### Dashboard header
<img class="no-shadow" src="/img/v2/v2_top_nav_annotated.png">

1. Side menu toggle
2. Dashboard title & Search dropdown (also includes access to New dashboard, Import & Playlist)
3. Star/unstar current dashboard
4. Share current dashboard (Make sure the dashboard is saved before)
5. Save current dashboard
6. Settings dropdown (dashboard settings, annotations, templating, etc)

<img src="/img/v1/interface_guide1.png" class="no-sthadow">

## New dashboard
![](/img/animated_gifs/new_dashboard.gif)

## Edit graphs
Click on a panel's title and then ``Edit`` to open a panel in edit mode.
![](/img/v1/edit_graph_ui_guide.png)

## Editing Rows
To the right of each row you have two colored rectangles, hover over these to get access to quick row controls.
![](/img/animated_gifs/row_edit_menu.gif)

## Drag drop panels
Click and drag the panel title to start a drag and drop action.
![](/img/animated_gifs/drag_drop.gif)

## Tips and shortcuts

* Click the graph title and in the dropdown menu quickly change span or duplicate the panel.
* Ctrl+S Saves the current dashboard
* Ctrl+F Opens the dashboard finder / search
* Ctrl+H Hides all controls (good for tv displays)
* Hit Escape to exit graph when in fullscreen or edit mode
* Click the colored icon in the legend to select series color
* Click series name in the legend to hide series
* Ctrl/Shift/Meta + Click legend name to hide other series
* Click the Save icon in the menu to save the dashboard with a new name
* Click the Save icon in the menu and then advanced to export the dashboard to json file, or set it as your default dashboard.