CookBook Software....

[ivanabacowboy]

If you need more help, I have been using the program for about 7 years or so (since like version 5 or 6), so I have a lot of useless knowledge about it and you are free to pm me.

Now that you have the icon, click it and you will see the MasterCook pane open to the left in IE. To get a recipe off the internet, use your cursor to highlight like the title. Then click the little box next to Title in the MC pane. Use your cursor to highlight directions-then click the box next to Directions in the MC pane. To get a picture, right click on the picture and select "MasterCook select image" from the drop down that appears, then click the little box in the MC pane next to picture. When you are done with that recipe, click "Add to List". Click "Current" to go back and get more recipes. When you are all done, go to "Add to List" then click "Save to MasterCook" and follow the prompts. You can tell it to put them in a cookbook you already have, or to make a new one.

If you have a Word document you converted to Html, it works exactly the same way.

[Cuisinette]

Originally Posted by ivanabacowboy

If you need more help, I have been using the program for about 7 years or so (since like version 5 or 6), so I have a lot of useless knowledge about it and you are free to pm me.

Now that you have the icon, click it and you will see the MasterCook pane open to the left in IE. To get a recipe off the internet, use your cursor to highlight like the title. Then click the little box next to Title in the MC pane. Use your cursor to highlight directions-then click the box next to Directions in the MC pane. To get a picture, right click on the picture and select "MasterCook select image" from the drop down that appears, then click the little box in the MC pane next to picture. When you are done with that recipe, click "Add to List". Click "Current" to go back and get more recipes. When you are all done, go to "Add to List" then click "Save to MasterCook" and follow the prompts. You can tell it to put them in a cookbook you already have, or to make a new one.

If you have a Word document you converted to Html, it works exactly the same way.

Thank you very much... I'll play a bit with it, I am sure it will come to me one way or another

[Cuisinette]

I filled in the recipe and clicked the pictures as I should... I know it won't show until the recipe is saved.

Current
I see the title of the recipe I have the option under Add to recipe list I clicked.

I go to List
No recipes have been added to list


PS. I red all the Help page and I didn't do anything different.


Edit: It works now, I have no idea why it didn't worked at first. I opened a new browser and it worked. And it takes the recipes I saved as web.
Thanks again.

[Cuisinette]

OK... big question.

How do you move a recipe from one folder to another?

[ivanabacowboy]

Move from one cookbook to another you mean?

The easiest way: Open cookbook where recipe is. Highlight the recipe in the list by clicking once. (TO move a lot at once, click on the first one and hold down CTRL and click others, or hold down shift to select a range). Go to the top file bar--->Edit--->Copy Recipe. Go to the other cookbook you want to move it into. Click Edit--->Paste. ;-)

This does not delete it from the original place it was. That is actually quite intentional in the program in case you "screw up". You can go back to the first book, click once to highlight it then on the top bar File-->Delete Recipe.

There is another way to do it you might like better. Depending how many recipes you have. It is called MasterList. Click on MasterList at the very bottom of the screen. You will see your list of cookbooks on the left. Click the plus and you will see your categories, and the recipes in the window on the right. You can drag and drop the recipes to copy them. (Note again: this does not delete them from your original location. You can go to the original location, highlight recipe, right click-->delete.) I find MasterList a pain once you get tens of thousands of recipes because it means a lot of scrolling lol!

PS If you have an email address you dont mind giving out like a yahoo address or something, pm it to me and I can send you a copy of the User Manual. ;-) It actually goes with Version 6, but other than Web Import and a couple other things, most things have not changed hugely since version 6. There is also a "user" who has made a version to go with Version 9 including web import. They are just pdf files. Version 6 was the last one to come with a user manual for some stupid reason.