Listing in AMS - 1
Basics

This page provides a step by step tutorial in how to upload your listings to the RealEstateBook.com website. It uses our AMS or Advertising Management System. The basic requirements are that you first have to have print advertising with The Real Estate Book and have been assigned a user name by one of our representatives. If you need a user name, please call us at 821-2919.

Note: Before starting the tutorial, it is highly recommended that you close all other open windows on your system. AMS (and this tutorial) is made for use with Windows based systems only. Mac users may be able to log in using Windows emulation mode, in which case, most of the tutorial should still be applicable, but you may want to skip this first section.

We will keep this as brief as possible, so lets get started by going to: http://ams.treb.com. Click the link and a new AMS window will open at the top left of your screen. For now just click back onto this page.

Beginners First! (Experienced users may even learn something)
There are 3 Windows shortcut keys that will be helpful in both this tutorial and in uploading your listings:
1. Alt-Tab key - Press and hold the Alt key. While still holding the Alt key down, press and release the Tab key. Then release the Alt key. This should take you to the window which was just opened. Do this again, and you are back onto this window. Use this to toggle back and forth between 2 open browser windows. Try it!

2. Ctrl-C key - First highlight a bit of text on this page with your mouse. Press and hold Ctrl and simultaneously press the C key. Release both keys. This copies the highlighted text into an invisible buffer in your computer's memory. (Same as going to the "Edit" menu and clicking "Copy", but faster.)

3. Ctrl-V key - Now click inside this box: and press Ctrl and the V key. Release. It should have written your copied text into the box. That's a quick "Copy and Paste" operation for those of you who did not already know it.

4. Copy/Paste to AMS Now use Alt-Tab to go back to the AMS window. Press Ctrl-V inside the "User Name" box and your text has now been copied from one window to another. This is the basic idea when copying text from the MLS to the AMS. You will have 2 browser windows open and copy your information from one window to the other. Of course, you could recreate your listing from scratch if you want to. But why do that when you have more than likely already done the work on the MLS? Using the shortcut keys between 2 open windows makes uploading to AMS extremely fast!

5. Alt-Tab-Tab This is an advanced use of the Alt-Tab key function. Press and hold the Alt key, then press and release the Tab key without releasing the Alt key. This allows you to see a graphical view of all your open windows. While still keeping the Alt key depressed, you can press the Tab key multiple times to cycle through all the windows on your desktop, releasing the Alt key only when you have highlighted the window you desire.

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