Finalizing Your Estimate Format with Cost Alignment and Cover Sheet Integration in Excel

Centering Columns and Populating Cover Sheet to Complete Estimate Formatting

Master the art of precision and effective formatting in detail page management, learning about cost information input, formatting styles, and transitions to cover sheets. This article guides you through the process of managing your cost information, ensuring all necessary details are captured and laid out effectively.

Key Insights

  • The article discusses the importance of accurately inputting and formatting cost information on a detail page, including center justifying columns for easy viewing and comprehension.
  • It emphasizes the need to ensure all cost information has been included, culminating in a total cost at the bottom of the page for clarity and ease of reference.
  • Upon completion of the detail page, the focus shifts to the cover sheet, where the cost for specification section needs to be populated, signaling the end of the estimate formatting process.

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All right, welcome back. Now that we have finished putting all of our cost information onto our detail page here, we can do maybe just a little bit of formatting here. Let's go to our column C and over to F. You can do a bulk select.

And let's just center justify those. Personally, that's just the way that I like to look at it. Have the wording kind of justified to the left over here and then have the columns center justified.

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Once we've input all of that information and we have a total cost down at the bottom, now it's time for us to move over to our cover sheet and make sure that we have all of our cost for specification section populated. And then we're going to be done formatting this estimate.

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Ed Wenz

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Ed started Wenz Consulting after 35 years as a professional estimator. He continues to work on various projects while also dedicating time to teaching and training through Wenz Consulting and VDCI. Ed has over 10 years of experience in Sage Estimating Development and Digital Takeoff Systems and has an extensive background in Construction Software and Communications Technology. Ed enjoys spending his free time with his wife and grandchildren in San Diego.

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