Happy Halloween! What Revu tool are you haunted by?👻

Happy Halloween Bluebeam users! Some features in Revu are very powerful and useful but a little intimidating at first. Is there a tool that used to "haunt" you but you learned to master it?

Share how you learned and mastered this "haunting" tool in the comments below!

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Rebecca Yu

I have to say that Batch Link made zero sense to me at first (the steps of how to create, not what it does) until I played around with it a bit and now I show it to everyone all the time. Love linking by page labels, but also creating a "home" button to go back to a sheet index.

Doug McLean

I'm going with Sets.

The first time I tried setting one up, the page labeling was so cattywampus that it simply wouldn't work. I eventually figured out what was going on and managed to get the labeling correct, and then magically Sets worked for me.
I still use that the trick I had to use from time to time.

One of my team here had other issues with Sets, and then I made a couple of minor preference changes and it all worked for him.

Now, I'm a massive advocate for using Sets.

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