Quick Text Settings
Quick Text Settings is a Setup page where administrators enable and configure Quick Text, which provides pre-written text snippets that users can insert into emails, chats, and other text fields.
Definition
Quick Text Settings is a Setup page where administrators enable and configure Quick Text, which provides pre-written text snippets that users can insert into emails, chats, and other text fields. Quick Text reduces typing time and ensures consistent messaging across the support and sales teams.
In plain English
“Here's a simple way to think about it: Quick Text Settings unlocks canned snippets for support and sales teams. Pre-written text, keyboard shortcut, instant insert - reducing repetitive typing without sacrificing quality.”
Worked example
The admin at BrightStar Telecom enables Quick Text Settings and creates 30 commonly used snippets for the support team, such as "Thank you for contacting support. I'd be happy to help with your issue" and "I've escalated your case to our technical team. You'll hear back within 4 business hours." Agents insert these with a few keystrokes instead of typing them each time.
Why Quick Text Settings unlock canned snippets for support and sales teams
Service agents type the same things over and over - opening pleasantries, status updates, requests for additional information. Sales reps do the same with follow-up emails and intro lines. Quick Text is the feature that lets users save those snippets and insert them with a keyboard shortcut. Quick Text Settings is the Setup page where you turn it on, configure which channels can use it, and decide whether snippets are personal or shared.
The reason it produces meaningful productivity gains is volume. Every minute saved on each repetitive message multiplied by the number of messages sent in a quarter adds up to days of agent time. Provision a starter library of organization-approved snippets at rollout, document the keyboard shortcut, and let agents add their own. Audit the shared library quarterly to retire stale snippets and surface the new patterns that have emerged.
How to set up Quick Text Settings
Quick Text Settings is the org-wide enable / disable page for the Quick Text feature, plus per-channel configuration. Once Quick Text is on, users can create snippet records and insert them into emails, chats, and notes via a keyboard shortcut or picker.
- Open Setup → Quick Text Settings
Setup gear → Quick Find: Quick Text Settings → Quick Text Settings.
- Tick Enable Quick Text
Org-wide enablement. Off by default in some new orgs.
- Tick channel availability (Email, Chat, Phone, Internal, Service)
Quick Text records have a Channels picklist; this org-wide setting gates which channels are available at all.
- Tick Enable Quick Text auto-insert (optional)
When ON, typing /< followed by a Quick Text Name auto-inserts the message body. Power-user shortcut.
- Save
Settings apply. Users can now create Quick Text records via the Quick Text tab.
- Add Quick Text utility to relevant Lightning Apps
Setup → App Manager → Edit the Service Console / Sales App → Utility Items → add Quick Text. Without this, users have no UI to access the picker.
Org-wide on/off.
Email, Chat, Phone, Internal, Service. Each can be enabled independently.
Power-user typing shortcut. Off by default.
Add via App Manager — required for the picker to appear.
- Enabling Quick Text only unlocks the feature — users still need the Quick Text utility added to their Lightning App. Forgetting this leaves "why can't I see Quick Text" tickets.
- Channel availability is two-layer — the org-wide Channels here, plus the per-Quick-Text Channels picklist on individual snippet records. A Quick Text scoped to Email-only doesn't appear in Chat picker even if Chat is enabled at org level.
- Quick Text doesn't merge fields the same way Email Templates do. Quick Text supports limited merge fields (User, Recipient, Case basics) — not arbitrary cross-object references.
How organizations use Quick Text Settings
Service team library of 200 quick text snippets; agent typing time per case dropped 30%.
Sales reps share team library of follow-up email patterns; quality and consistency rose simultaneously.
Patient-facing teams use approved quick text for common responses; HIPAA-compliant phrasing is consistent.
Trust & references
Straight from the source - Salesforce's reference material on Quick Text Settings.
- Standardize Responses with Quick TextSalesforce Help
About the Author
Dipojjal Chakrabarti is a B2C Solution Architect with 29 Salesforce certifications and over 13 years in the Salesforce ecosystem. He runs salesforcedictionary.com to help admins, developers, architects, and cert/interview candidates sharpen their fundamentals. More about Dipojjal.
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