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Create a spreadsheet from a schedule

Create a spreadsheet from a schedule - Bluebeam Tutorial

From the course: Bluebeam: Tips and Tricks

Create a spreadsheet from a schedule

- [Jim] Welcome back to Bluebeam Tips and Tricks. Jim Rogers here, and in this episode I'm going to be showing you how to export some of the contents from your PDF file directly into an Excel spreadsheet, Now, before you say that sounds weird, why would you convert a PDF file into an Excel spreadsheet, consider the example that I have here on the screen. I've got my construction drawings, and if I zoom in you'll see that what I'm looking at here is a schedule of values. Now there are times when I might want to export this schedule of values directly into Excel where I can work with and manipulate this data, and I've got the ability to do that with just a few clicks here in Bluebeam Revu. To access that ability, I'm going to go up to the File menu, click on that and scroll down to the Export functions. When that panel opens, I'm going to look at the Export to Excel workbook feature. Now I've got the ability to export the entire document, but unless I've got a document that's just full…

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