What are your Tips and Tricks for the Specification Manual?

Ted Krush

What are your tips and tricks for utilizing Bluebeam when it comes to the Specification Manual beyond simply booking the sections and conducting a word search?

There are many posts and videos available on maximizing the use of drawings for markups, navigation, and collaboration. However, these resources often overlook the Specification Manual.

As a construction manager, I spend as much time in the specifications as I do in the drawings. Therefore, achieving better search results and improving data mining is essential for me.

Jes Stafford

Best thing we did for specs - make the headers and footers the same for each page, not alternating even/odd like a hard copy. That enables all the page region automation in Bluebeam - page labels, Bookmark grouping, TOC indexing/linking, etc.