From the course: Construction Estimating: RSMeans and Cost Data
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Using the search feature
From the course: Construction Estimating: RSMeans and Cost Data
Using the search feature
- [Instructor] After you've logged in and set your preferences, you can begin searching for particular items or assemblies on the search data tab. You can search by keyword, or by specification number, or you could search by opening up the master format tree on the left-hand side and expand the sections and sub-sections. Let's take a look around. I'll search for a few common items. If you don't see this little search area here, you may have to click to the right on this little orange search key. And that'll open it up for you. So let's search by name. Maybe I'm looking for a metal railing. When I search by name, I'm gonna find a bunch of different results. Anything that really has metal and railing in it. So there might even be items that aren't metal railing but still have metal railing in it. For instance, some of these shop fabricated stairs, they have metal railings in them. But that's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for specifically metal railings. I'll go down a little bit…
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