08.04 The Bid Areas Dialog Box, Toolbar, and Shortcuts

Click the button on the Areas Toolbar (previous article) to open the Bid Areas Dialog Box.

Bid Areas Dialog Box

The Bid Areas Dialog Box is where you setup and manage all your Bid Areas.

We already added a few Bid Areas and Child Bid Areas so you can see how the dialog box looks.

Not much to show right now because we have not set up any Bid Areas, we will get to that in the next article.

Bid Areas Dialog Box Toolbar

The Bid Areas Dialog Box Toolbar includes buttons for adding Bid Areas, Child Areas (when you already have a Bid Area such as "Building A" and want to add "Floors 1 - 10" under that Bid Area, you use a "Child Area", edit and Delete Bid and Child Areas, move Bid and Child Areas up and down in their current "level", and expand and collapse all Bid Areas with Child Areas below them.

Button	Keyboard Shortcut	Description	What it does/How it is used...
	Insert or INS	Add Area	Adds a Bid Area below the selected area at the same level (not a child area)
	CTRL + I	Add Sub Area (child of higher Area)	Inserts a Child Bid Area under the selected Area
	F2	Edit	Edits the Bid Area name
	Delete or DEL	Delete Area	Deletes the current selected Area(s) and any Sub-Areas
		Move Area Up	Moves the Bid Area up in the list, at the same Level (To promote or demote a Bid Area (to change its level), you use drag-n-drop, we will cover this in the articles that follow)
		Move Area Down	Moves the Bid Area down in the list (at the same Level)
		Expand All	If your Bid Areas includes sub-areas, shows all sub-areas under their parents
		Collapse All	If your Bid Areas includes sub-areas, collapses all sub-areas and only the top tier (parents) display

Now it is time to create some Bid Areas.

The Areas Toolbar (on the Main Toolbar)

Adding (or Creating) Bid Areas