[Doug McLean]

The problem comes when you need to break it down beyond a simple quantity.
When you need it by floor, phase, building, room, elevation…. quantity link is simply too difficult to set up.
Building the custom columns for Finish Carpentry is time consuming, but relatively easy. Linking all of that to Excel, that’s where its a PITA.

You’re right though, you can set it up so that you’re getting lots of data from just one or two markups.