REA Tricks Archive

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REA can print labels and envelopes but there may be times where you want to send a postcard to 5000 investors and you prefer to use a mailing house to send the cards.

Create a query of the contacts.
Press F5 to go to the List view of your contacts.
Open the Fields drop down in the upper [...]

REA 9.13 includes a direct connection to Microsoft MapPoint http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/default.mspx which alllows you to select multiple properties in REA and draw tours for your clients. The second new addition is a greatly enhanced connection to Outook. Now, a synchronization is nearly 100 times faster than the prior release! Download and give it a try!

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Function Keys in REA

Tim Creagh, the designer of REA, has never liked moving his fingers off the keyboard. So, many processes in REA are function key activated. For example, before entering a contact always press F12 to search to see if the contact already exists. In fact, F12 should be used every time you search for a contact. [...]

REA Tip today for Copy-Paste

In Windows, we have been conditioned to highlight, right-click and from the menu that appears copy and paste email addresses, phone numbers etc. But, REA works differently for copy and pasting data. When you highlight a phone number in in REA and right-click a menu appears for Sort, Query etc. To Copy and Paste REA [...]