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o quickly create a copy of any selected markup, hold down the Ctrl key, then click and drag the markup to the side.

If you’d also like to paste it in the same place on another PDF, copy the markup and use Ctrl + Shift + V when you paste on the new page.

I don't consider myself an in-house trainer as much as an in-house "go-to guy" . That said, I have typically done a tips and tricks during our weekly staff meetings. This serves two purposes - one, it shows staff some of what's possible with Bluebeam and how they can use it right now, and two, shows them that I can help them do what they're wanting Bluebeam to do.

Often I'm just sharing basic features but mostly I'm also showing how approachable I am to answer questions and how patient I am when explaining how to do something. I find that one-on-one, task specific training works best but the group training exposes them to the potential of using Bluebeam.

This is so dependent on the group and level of instruction. We have our group of "onboarding videos" that take a user through setting up the profile and tools, as well as basic usage, which is typically enough for the field team, but when it comes to advanced usage I agree with a lot of the posts here, dependent on the specific things they are trying to accomplish. Making a video or training for each function is typically less useful or efficient as one only comes across using things like Dynamic Fill once in a blue moon. A lot of that training ends up being a quick stop at the desk. Printing little quick references does help, such as common keyboard shortcuts or how to manage groups in Projects.

Ashley, thanks, this is somewhat helpful, but not exactly what I was hoping for.

I get pdf files of multiple sheets from people who printed them out of e.g. Autodesk applications. It's very common in our office, and I also get from external Project consultants. But I'm often the one who has to manage & collate different pdf files, most of them having layers, and before submittals — delete the layers because permitting agencies reviewers don't work with files having layers.

So, rather than trying to coach & educate multiple people contributing to the project about the way they print from their various Autodesk applications, it'd be just easier if I could easily delete all layers from any multipage document, in one stroke.

For instance, here's the layers in one sheet of a 45 sheet set…

And here's the layers in another sheet of the same set..

(there's still more than shown). That's the same person printing — she's printing the same way. It's just evident that that the Autodesk files are "accumulating more "stuff" all the time, and that stuff leads to more layers.

So I think you see from the above my problem is that in a document with say 10 or 50 pages, with layering like this, the layers seem infinite, & being able to delete one specific layer from all sheets at one time, isn't quite working for me. I guess my term "globally" that I used initially might not have been the right terminology.

Again, rather trying to control the way that various people print to pdf's, it'd be easier if I could easily delete all layers in one go.

Thanks

Thanks Glynis D.! Good & easy work around.