From the course: Construction Estimating: RSMeans and Cost Data

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Estimate reports

Estimate reports

- [Instructor] Now that we have a few items in assemblies entered into an estimate let's see what actions we can do with that estimate. Scroll down on the page. And you'll see this area over here that says Estimate Action with a dropdown list. So a few things you could do here, on this particular estimate, like change the cost data or change the estimate header. That just brings us back to the setting up the estimate area. But I wanted to change the name or the cost data I could certainly do that. I'm not ready to do that. I don't know why I would necessarily do that. Maybe I wanted to use the same estimate but add a different location or a different type of labor, I could certainly do that there. But let's get into the actual reporting. There's a few different ways to do this, you can go to Export to Excel, which is very common. Click that and that's gonna download an excel spreadsheet to my browser. I will open it and bring it over to the screen, it looks something like this, it's…

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