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Vanguard Appraisals welcomes Lincoln County, Nebraska
New appraisal software needed to be purchased for Lincoln County, Nebraska Assessor Office. Lincoln County had four options, but voted and chosen Vanguard Appraisals to be their appraisal software of choice. VanguardRead More...
AM 1400 KVFD with Micheal Devine Speaking with Webster County Assessor Angie Vinson and Vanguard Appraisals, Inc.
Vanguard Appraisals, Inc. President Robert Ehler, Vice President of Appraisal Operation Eric Kruse, and Mass Appraisal Associate James Sinclar along with Webster County Assessor Angie Vinson were invited to speak on AMRead More...
Zoom Versus Default Font for Notes
By: Nick Klein A feature introduced into CAMAvision® v18 (2013) was the ability to apply a zoom level for viewing notes and the legal description. This feature is variable per-user and allowsRead More...
2017 User Group Meeting Highlights
By: Teresa Ellerby For 2017, we completed seven greatly attended user group meetings. Nebraska meeting was held at the Country Inn & Suites in Lincoln April 18th thru 20th. We had 24Read More...
Increase Web Traffic, Alleviate Your Workload
By: Nicholas Bowers A good assessor website is like having an extra employee working for you. It’s an employee who works 24/7 and can be the face of your office. It’s aRead More...
Right-Click and Search
By: Nick Klein A new feature appearing in CAMAvision® version 22 is integrated web searching via a right-click mouse menu. Simply select some text within a note, legal, or the permit commentRead More...
Setting Your County Number for DOV’s within CAMAvision
By: Mike Weeks In a previous update to CAMAvision®, we set your Jurisdiction number to populate on the DOV’s that can be printed out of our system. Unfortunately, some of these slippedRead More...
A Pre-Edit Message to Myself
By: Terri Scheuermann Many users have requested a Pre-edit reminder popup message for a variety of reasons. These messages could be a reminder to check select fields upon editing to making theRead More...
What’s Are Your Plans?
By: Scott Johnson I have had the privilege to work in many states over the last couple of decades, and even though each state requires the assessor to set the value ofRead More...
Getting To Know the Newest Vanguard Employees
Please help us welcome new employee Glen Dawson to the VAI family. Glen was hired July 31, 2017. Glen works as an Appraisal Associate. Glen was born at Ellsworth Air Force Base,Read More...
Check and Tags CAMAvision v22
By: Marty Barrett Introduction For years, the check-tag system of CAMAvision has been a simple set of four fields that could be activated (i.e., “tagged”) to make categorizing and searching for theseRead More...
Are You on the Latest and Greatest?
By: VCS Tech Support When it comes to software like CAMAvision, it is ideal to keep up on updates to ensure you have all the latest and greatest features, as well asRead More...
Did You Know?
Illinois The world’s largest cookie and cracker factory, where Nabisco made 16 billion Oreo cookies in 1995, is located in Chicago. The round Silo for farm storage of silage was first constructedRead More...
Query Wizard… Little Things Add Up
By: Gavin Gross With all the changes made to the Query Wizard in version 22, it is almost certain you will miss at least one change that could make your life aRead More...
Multi-parcel Sale – Data Entry
By: Danielle Powell One of the enhancements in Version 22 of CAMAvision involved multi-parcel sales, as the simple checkbox to indicate a multi-parcel sale converted to a drop-down menu. The options inRead More...
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
By: Patrick Alexander In this case, maybe you should. In the latest release of the program, the (Query) Wizard received many enhancements. One of these enhancements is the ability to create aRead More...
Check, Check, 1, 2 … Is This Thing Even On?
By: Patrick Alexander Added to the program in version 20, the Data Checker is located off the Tools menu at the top of CAMAvision. The Data Checker is the source to useRead More...
Putting A little Fun in Your Office
By: Nick Klein In recent versions of Microsoft® Office products, you may notice the appearance of personalization features. Whether it’s a person’s name and picture appearing in the title bar or choosingRead More...
Did You Know?
Illinois only two buildings survived the great Chicago fire, the Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station. Iowa is the only U.S. state name that begins with two vowels. Missouri is the birthplaceRead More...
Setting the City/Twp/ID Field En Masse
By: Sherry Surrett In the version 21 update, many of you may have noticed a new field on the General Tab within the parcel ~ City/Twp/ID as highlighted below. This field onRead More...
Showing Windows Shortcuts and Control Focus
By: Nick Klein Like most programs, CAMAvision® provides many shortcuts to the commands and menus for the keyboard-centric user. Starting with Windows® Vista, a new “clean” styling methodology started to take shapeRead More...
PIN Lists – hmmmm… Interesting, What Exactly Can They Do For Me?
By: Rownea Gerbracht PIN Lists are an unnoticed tool hidden within Vanguard. They may be especially helpful for people who have large lists of parcels on which they need to do work.Read More...
Terri’s Tips and Tricks
Did you know that an inactive/retired identifier is available in the PDF table? This will make it easier for users to exclude certain PDFs from selection processes by selecting Active. Notice onRead More...
The Vanguard Photo Challenge
It is that time of year again… The Vanguard Photo Challenge is back on FACEBOOK and now on INSTAGRAM! Thanks to everyone who submitted a photo to us for this year’s challenge.Read More...