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Rooms & Line Items

Select and bulk edit line items

Select a range, a whole room or the entire estimate, then move, copy or delete in one action, or copy straight into a spreadsheet.

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Stop editing one row at a time. Select a range, a whole room or the entire estimate, then move, copy or delete it in a single action, or copy it straight into a spreadsheet.

Bulk editing lives on the job's Estimates tab: open Jobs, open the job, and go to Estimates.

Multi-select is available on desktop. On a phone, each line item is a card with its own Row actions menu.

Select multiple line items

  • Shift+click selects a range: click the first row, then Shift+click the last.
  • ⌘+click (Ctrl+click) toggles individual rows in and out of the selection.
  • Shift+↑ / Shift+↓ extends the selection by keyboard from the current row.
  • Drag a box: click and drag across rows to select everything the box touches. The box can span several rooms.
  • ⌘A (Ctrl+A) selects all line items in the estimate.

Press Esc to clear the selection.

Act on the selection

Right-click the selection to see what you can do with it:

  • Copy N items to clipboard
  • Move N items to a room
  • Copy N items to a room
  • Delete N items

N is the number of rows selected. With a single row, the same menu reads Copy item to clipboard, Move to room, Copy to room and Delete.

Deleting asks you to confirm first. If you change your mind after any bulk action, press ⌘Z (Ctrl+Z) to bring it back. See Undo and redo.

Moving, copying to a room and deleting are available once the estimate is unlocked and Wave has finished updating it. Copying a selection with ⌘C (Ctrl+C) is available any time.

Copy line items into a spreadsheet

Copy any part of an estimate straight into Excel, Google Sheets or an email.

  1. Select the rows you want. ⌘A (Ctrl+A) selects the whole estimate.
  2. Press ⌘C (Ctrl+C), or right-click and choose Copy N items to clipboard.
  3. Paste into Excel, Google Sheets or an email.

The rows paste as a clean table grouped by room, with descriptions, quantities, units and prices in their own columns, ready to sort, total or share. No export step and no reformatting.

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