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A great site- http://mc6help.tripod.com/
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A Word of Thanks
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I really appreciate the help I received from the MasterCook Development
Team. They have very patiently answered my many questions.
* Thank you members of Mastercook@lists.sierra.com (now discontinued) and
the Sierra Cooking/MasterCook Message Board. We all benefit from your tips
and discoveries included in this cookbook.
* Thank you Sierra for this awesome program.
* Thank you ValuSoft for picking up where SierraHome left off and
continuing to improve this awesome title.
NOTE: Please feel free to share this cookbook (as the MC2 file or exported
as a TXT file) with others but do not edit the cookbook first. You may
edit this cookbook for your own personal use. However, share the entire
cookbook as you received it from my web site at http://mc6help.tripod.com/
This cookbook was last updated on February 3, 2004.
Pam Erickson
Volunteer Sierra Moderator
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?224@@baf2b@
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Cookbook Covers - Changing Them
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1. In the Cookbook Browser window (where you can view all your cookbooks)
right click on a cookbook you want to change the cover on.
2. Choose Customize from the menu.
3. Click on the Cover tab.
4. Click on the Browse button. On the drop down menu under "Files of Type"
select Portable Network Graphics (*.png).
5. Browse the SierraHome CD that came with the program (CD#1 if it's a
2-CD set). Open the Covers folder. Select one.
The covers that came with the SierraHome v5.x/v6.x programs are 72 by 98
pixels. MasterCook will tile, center or distort cover art to fit the
space.
You can preview these files with My Computer if you already have a program
that can read .png files -- a program like Paint Shop Pro. If My Computer
does not show you a thumbnail preview, then you might be able to update
your graphics software. You may want to obtain a graphics viewer that can
handle them. Once added, Windows "My Computer" will preview .png files.
Another option would be to extend Windows' Quick View (one of the
utilities included with Windows 95/98). See this add-in from PC Magazine:
PC Magazine's ImgView Enhance the Windows 95/98 Quick View facility by
adding viewers for seven additional graphics formats: .gif, .jpeg, Kodak
PhotoCD, .pcx, .png, .targa, and .tiff. First Published December 3, 1996
in PC Magazine. Download from zdnet: PC Magazine's ImgView
<http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=00
OFK&b=>
Windows XP has its own built-in thumbnail viewer.
Q: I used to be able to save as a *.jpg from Paint. I just reformatted my
hard drive at home and I don't have that option anymore. How I can get it
back?
A: All I did was open a *.gif and *.jpg in Paint and I now have those
options when I select SAVE AS.
You can use pictures of books or magazines or your children, trimmed to
fit. MasterCook accepts three formats: .bmp, .jpg and .png.
I went to the Cooking Light web site <http://www.cookinglight.com/> and
found a photo of the cover of their current issue. To save it, move the
mouse over the image, right click on it, and then select "save image as"
and tell it where to save it and give it a name. I have a folder called
"graphics & photos" on my C drive that I save things like this in. Then go
to your cookbooks in MasterCook. Right click on the cookbook that you want
to use the image for and choose Customize from the menu. Choose the Cover
tab. Choose Browse and direct the program to find the graphic you have
just saved -- under whatever folder you saved it under and it's name. Then
choose Apply and then Done and voila! -- a new cookbook cover! Since the
magazine covers change each month, you could use a new cover every month
if you want to. I have done this for Bon Appetit, Cooking Light,
Vegetarian Times, Veggie Life, and Southern Living. I have cookbooks set
up for each of these individual magazines, and now they have the magazine
covers on them!
You can find lots of covers at this web site below. If you can't find it
in the cooking section, just type the name of the magazine into the search
box and it will take you there. (You can also find cookbook covers at
on-line bookstores.) NBAF: Magazine Subscriptions
<http://nbaf.com/index.html>
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Cookbook Covers - Creating Photo-Album Looking Covers
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Here's one way to build a picture to get that photo-album look. It uses
MS-Paint. Of course, if you have a program that lets you build a picture
with layers (adobe), you will get better looking effects than we can with
paint. But it works pretty well.
The goal is to have two files, both bmp, both the same size.
One image is mostly white and has the binding and can be pasted onto the
other image. The white will disappear (be transparent) and the grays of
the binding won't.
The Binding Art - whcover.bmp -- I edited one of the mostly white covers
(My Cookbook, or bloodymary2 that come on the SierraHome v5.x/v6.0 CDs)
1. Convert a cover.png file - save as whcover.bmp
2. Edit whcover.bmp with MS-Paint. Erase the face of the book. Keep in
mind that all white will paste transparent - disappear and all grays
won't.
3. Save whcover.bmp (you may want to protect this file by changing its
attribute to read only.)
Magazine/Book Cover:
1. Rescale and/or resize coverart: 72 x 97 pixels. (one pixel more or less
on one of these dimensions won't matter enough to distort things.)
2. Save as bmp image.
Edit the mag/book cover bmp with MS-Paint.
1. Select All from the Edit Menu.
2. Click "paste transparent".
3. Select "paste from..." from the Edit Menu.
4. Select whcover.bmp.
5. Say yes and adjust sizes to fit (overlap).
6. That's it. Watch what name MS-Paint wants to use when you save...
The transparency isn't perfect but at that scale it's alright!
Tip - The picture may look better if you change the foreground color to
dark gray.
Why it works: the background color on the palette bar is white. The two
pictures are about the same size.
Another Tip: The transparent paste is the lower of the two paste pictures
on the tool bar, under the oval and the round-corner box.
Note: The cover art must be *.png *.jpg or *.bmp.
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Cookbook Covers - Ultimate Paint (Free Painting Program)
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On the topic of making your own covers and graphics for cookbooks, I
thought I'd pass on the URL for a free painting program that has a bit
more than the Paint program that comes with Windows. This is a program
that is closer to the big ones like Photoshop than it is to MS-Paint.
Just surf over to Ultimate Paint Homepage
<http://www.ultimatepaint.com/index.html> and scroll down near the bottom
for the free version. The latest version is shareware, but the earlier
version is being given away! The program also supports the PNG format.
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Cookbook Covers - Using Paint Shop Pro
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I made the cover using PSP (Paint Shop Pro) starting out with a white
72x97 background and added the gray lines. I selected all and copied.
Next I selected the picture I wanted to use for the cover and resized it
to 72x97. I then selected edit>paste>as transparent selection and lined up
the to pictures. While the gray was still selected I added a drop shadow
vertical=1, horizontal=-1, opacity=100, and blur=3.3 This worked great!
Adding the drop shadow gives it the needed dimensions.
Here's another way....
1. Crop an image to the approximate size of 72 x 97 pixels.
2. Using Paint Shop Pro open the image.
3. Select DUPLICATE from the Windows menu to open a duplicate copy of the
file. Close your original file to preserve it. (You may wish to use the
View menu to ZOOM IN by 5 to make things easier to work with.)
4. Choose SELECT ALL from the Selections menu.
5. From the Effects menu choose 3D EFFECTS > OUTER BEVEL and apply the
default settings. Increase the SMOOTHNESS to 20. Click on OK to return to
the main screen.
6. Choose SELECT NONE from the Selection menu.
7. Click on the SELECTION cursor (using the rectangle type) and select
about 10 pixels wide starting along the left edge and extending from the
top to the bottom of the image. (Your selection should be 10 x 97 pixels,
along the left edge.)
8. From the Effects menu choose TEXTURE EFFECTS > BLINDS. Adjust the
default settings by removing the checkmark from HORIZONTAL; change the
WIDTH to 11; change the opacity to 70; click OK.
9. Save your image as a JPG file and insert it as a cover.
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Cookbooks - Adding a Cookbook to Your Collection
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Q: Does anyone have a trick on how best to include a friend's cookbook so
that it appears on the cookbook list (Cookbook Browser screen)?
A: When I get a cookbook and picture file from someone, I use Windows
Explorer and copy the files to the 'My Collection' folder. While in the
Cookbook Browser screen (where my list of cookbooks are shown), I press
the F5 key on my keyboard. It will refresh the list of cookbooks showing
the cookbook I just copied to the 'My Collection' folder.
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Cookbooks - Backing up Cookbooks on CD
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CD-R's and CD-RW's are kind of tricky. They are not as straightforward as
a ZIP drive, etc. Usually these files become read-only when they are on
the CD. This makes it impossible to make any changes to the cookbook. If
you don't plan on editing the cookbooks then it won't be a problem.
If you are going to be accessing a cookbook from the CD, create a
collection folder on the CD and then copy your cookbooks into that
collection folder, instead of the My Collection folder on your hard drive.
Then all you need to do is register that collection with MasterCook. Do
this by choosing Manage Collections from the Tools menu. Direct it to your
collection folder on your CD and select the Add button.
Beware though, if you refresh your files (select Refresh File List from
the Tools menu) when the CD isn't in the drive, the cookbooks will
disappear from the Cookbook Browser. See the Sierra README.TXT file for
more info on this.
When I bought our CD-RW, I was a little surprised to find out that I could
not use it as easily and as completely as I could the ZIP drive. The ZIP
drive is just like other media (like a micro disk or hard disk) that lets
us read, write, open, edit, etc. file contents.
When we copy a file to a ZIP disk the file's attributes are not changed.
When we copy a file to a CD, the attribute can be changed to read only --
protecting it as a back-up that needs special handling when we want to
overwrite the file with an updated version. Remember to reset the file to
"archive" when copying it back to the hard drive for MasterCook to
read/edit.
As with any software you use, be sure your CD-writing software has been
patched up to the latest version. You don't want to find that buggy
software has messed up your backup copies.
Important Note: Several people have reported trouble restoring cookbooks
after using packet-writing software to save their cookbook files on CD.
The instructions for packet-writing software describe it as allowing you
to use your CD-RW like "a giant floppy" to copy files using drag and drop,
rewrite saved files, etc. Frequently, you'll have a link to it from your
right-click Send To menu. Some common names of packet-writing software
are: InCD, ABCD, DirectCD
Because of these problems, we recommend that, at a minimum, you test any
backup copies of MasterCook files you make with this type of software to
be sure it is working properly. Make sure that the cookbook files open and
are readable within MC. Check several cookbooks, and/or test several
different "burns" to be sure.
Safer still would be to use regular burning software, rather than the
packet-writing. Ordinarily, you receive this software with your purchase
of a CD-RW drive as well as the packet-writing software, but it will have
a different name and be a separate stand-alone program. You'll need to
start it up just as you would any program from your Start > Programs menu.
Some common names are: Nero, Easy CD Creator, CDExtreme. Check your own
documentation.
For detailed info and answers to lots of common questions on CD recording,
see http://www.cdrfaq.org/
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Cookbooks - Check the Health of Your Cookbooks
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One quick and easy way to determine whether or not you have a corrupt
cookbook is by performing a general, keyword search. Perform the search on
ALL your cookbooks (i.e. search for "asparagus" in all your books). If the
program hangs on a cookbook during the search, chances are that book is
corrupt. Note the name of the book the search screen says it is currently
searching through. (Hopefully you have a back-up copy of this book, but it
is in good health!)
1. After the program closes and while using Windows Explorer, remove that
book from the collection folder. Move it to another location on your
computer, out of a collection folder.
2. Deleted the MC World.mcw file which is found inside the MC Tools
folder. (MasterCook will rebuild this file on the next launch. This makes
MasterCook reinventory its collection folders and note any changes that
happened behind its back (see step #1 above).
3. Relaunch the program.
4. Perform another search. If all goes well, your cookbooks are all in
good health. Now would be an excellent time to back up your files.
When things go wrong....
Some of you are aware of the preferences setting inside the GENERAL tab
labeled: RESTORE PREVIOUS VIEW UPON START-UP. This is great because it
makes MasterCook remember where you were the previous time you used the
program. When you restart the program, it will take you to the screen you
were last viewing. I really like this setting; it's one of my favorites!
However, this is a problem if that last screen was on a cookbook that is
now corrupt. The program will launch and will have problems recreating
that screen. You may see error messages and the program will fail to
launch. *UGH* Fear not! There's an easy way to get around this issue. Hold
down the SHIFT key on your keyboard while you launch the program. (You may
have to double click even if you have your Windows settings to open files
on single click.) This makes MasterCook IGNORE that 'restore previous
view' and it will instead load the CONTENTS screen. Now you are ready to
go to Search and find the problem child cookbook and get rid of it -- see
the first paragraph above.
Do you have a cookbook that won't open or crashes the program when you try
to open it? Is it a favorite, irreplaceable cookbook (NOT one that you
could easily recreate -- recipes collected from e-mail lists, etc.)? Post
a message on the message boards:
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.ee741bb
and the moderators will try to assist you. It would also be helpful if you
could give an estimated number of recipes that are inside the cookbook and
the size of the cookbook file. The only things that will be recovered from
the cookbook are just the recipes. Categories, cuisines, and other
classifications will be lost. It is very important to keep your files
backed up regularly! The recovery depends on how badly the file is
corrupted.
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Cookbooks - Creating a Cookbook to Use as a Template
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Creating a template cookbook is a great way to ensure that your preferred
settings and the categories you use most often are transferred to each new
cookbook you create.
1. Create a new cookbook by selecting “New Cookbook” from the File menu.
Name it “My Template,” or whatever title will make sense to you.
2. Add your preferred categories, ratings and cuisines. You can add
categories by copying recipes from other cookbooks into your template.
(Click on the recipe and select “Copy Selected Recipes” from the Edit
menu. Return to your template cookbook and select “Paste Recipes” from the
Edit menu.) Delete the recipes you have copied. The categories will remain
assigned to your template cookbook. Be sure to click “No” when prompted to
delete the empty categories.
3. Set your preferred font colors and sizes, etc. by selecting “Customize
Cookbook” from the Tools menu. You've now set how recipes will appear in
the Recipe Display view.
4. Do not add any recipes to your template cookbook. When you want to
create a new cookbook, simply highlight the template cookbook and select
“Save Cookbook As” from the File menu. (Do not choose “New Cookbook” from
the File menu as you may have done in the past.) The settings you
specified in your template cookbook will now be copied to each new
cookbook you create.
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Cookbooks - Importing Categories, Ratings and Cuisines
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Q: Is it possible to import a set of categories, ratings and cuisines from
one of the packaged cookbooks into "My Cookbook?"
A: Here is what I do:
1. Pick a recipe from a cookbook that has the categories, ratings and
cuisines that I want.
2. While in the Recipe Edit view and using the Categories tab I put
checkmarks in the categories I want to bring over.
3. Give the recipe a new name ('categories' or whatever you prefer) and
save it.
4. Copy the 'categories' recipe and paste it into your cookbook.
5. Now you can delete the recipe but don't let it delete the empty
categories when prompted.
This will give you all the ratings, categories and cuisines from the
cookbook the recipe came from.
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Cookbooks - Limiting Cookbooks to View/Search
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Q: I'm trying to limit the number of cookbooks I see when I open
MasterCook. My goal is to see only the cookbooks in the "my collection"
folder. This way, I need not scroll through all the Betty Crocker
cookbooks that came with the software. (I don't want to give up the B.C.
cookbooks though!) My work around solution has been to put letter "A" and
"AA" in front of my most frequently used books so they are at the top of
the list.
Is there a way to accomplish this without banishing the B.C. books to some
far away corner of my hard disk? I want to be able to view them without a
lot of trouble. Also, when I search for a recipe, I want to search only
within "my collection" unless I tell it otherwise.
A: The easiest way to hide cookbooks would be to keep them in a particular
collection and 'Remove' the collection (see Manage Collections). This
makes MasterCook 'forget' about the collection and its contents. Of
course, it does NOT delete the folder or its contents. It has the added
benefit over moving files around of decreasing the likelihood of
accidentally stomping on a newer book with an older version or breaking
embedded recipe links.
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Cookbooks - Managing Collections
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Q: I've been trying to rename the "My Collection" folder. When I am in the
Manage Collections window and highlight the "My Collection" folder the
"Rename" button stays subdued. Is it possible to change the name of this
collection?
A: "My Collection" is reserved by the program and cannot be edited. You
could create a new collection and move your cookbooks to it.
Q: When in the Manage Collections window, where/how do I add the new
Collection that I want to create? I've tried highlighting the various
folders but the Add button remains subdued. I did manage to add one under
the MC Tools folder but it doesn't show up on the cookbooks screen list
and now I can't get it to delete back out of that folder. Please help!
A: To remove your existing folder from the MC Tools folder, you will need
to use Windows Explorer or My Computer while MasterCook is not operating.
Just click on the folders until the contents of the MC Tools folder are in
the right-hand side of the screen (If you are using the most current
version of MasterCook (ValuSoft v6.2) you would click on C:\Program Files,
then MasterCook, then MC Tools). Select the collection folder name you
want to remove, right click it, and choose Delete from the right-click
menu. When you start MasterCook again, from the cookbook browser window
hit the F5 key on your keyboard to refresh your file list.
Now to add your new collection! From the cookbook browser window (where
the names of your cookbook are listed), click on Tools>Manage Collections.
A window will open that looks much like the Windows Explorer window. You
will see the folder "Program Files" and under it will be the folder
"MasterCook." Click on the plus sign to open up the MasterCook folder, and
highlight it ("MasterCook"), if it is not already highlighted.
Now look at the box at the bottom of that window. It should say
"C:\Program Files\MasterCook" (the "C" may be a different letter for you
if you have installed in a different drive). Click in the box and add the
name of your new collection directly after the pre-typed info. Then click
"Add." Another window should open stating that the specified folder does
not exist and asking if you want to create it -- click "Yes." You should
see the name of your folder added to the list of folders. Then click
"Done."
You must add or transfer some cookbooks to your new collection before it
will show up in the cookbook browser window when you choose to sort by
collection. You can transfer existing cookbooks to your new collection by
highlighting a cookbook name and using the Tools>Change Collection menu.
Another option would be to create a collection folder using Windows
Explorer or My Computer. Then use the Manage Collections window to select
and Add the collection you created outside the program.
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Cookbooks - Naming Cookbooks
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If you want certain cookbooks to appear at the beginning of your Cookbook
Browser, here is something you can do.
I start it with 1 - I have "1 Temp," "2 Temp," etc. Also if I want a book
to be at the end of the list, I start it with Z. A file name can contain
up to 255 characters, including spaces. It cannot contain the following
characters: \ / : * ? " < > |
Your filenames can be made up of letters, numbers, dashes (-), underscores
(_), and dots (.). Any other character may cause problems.
In general, file and directory names should be composed only of letters of
the alphabet, digits, dots and underscores. Be aware that Unix prohibits
the use of special characters, such as a dot, to begin the filename.
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Cookbooks - Picture Compression Tool (Version 7.0 Only)
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The Picture Compression Tool is a new addition to MasterCook
functionality. Using it, we can dramatically reduce the size of the
picture files (*.mcx) of our own cookbooks.
The default settings will give you excellent picture quality and dramatic
file compression. The default settings are:
"LEAD CMP" compression type
"Quality and Size equally important" compression factor
The best way to test different settings is to use the same compression
option (such as JPG) but change the QFactor from one extreme to the other
to notice the difference in quality.
You could compare the results for settings you think might work for you by
making identical test cookbooks, but use different compression settings on
each. Then open another window of MC and view the same recipe pictures
side by side.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Cookbooks - Purchasing More Cooking Light Recipes
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cookbooks
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: Where can I purchase more Cooking Light recipes/cookbooks?
A: Recently Cooking Light has started offering MasterCook EXported
cookbooks at their web site. See their page here:
http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking/magazine/recipeindex/index.html
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Cookbooks - Saving on Another Drive
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cookbooks
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: How do I save my cookbooks on another drive?
A: The way I have been using alternate drives is to add a new collection
name using MS Explorer then go to Tools>Manage Collections and add it. You
can then add cookbooks to the new collection and it can reside on any
valid drive.
You can also use the Manage Collections to add a collection to any valid
drive.
If a registered collection is located on a CD and that CD is not in the
CD-ROM drive. MasterCook will treat items in this collection as if they
were deleted (see the following paragraph). However, if the CD is inserted
into the CD-ROM drive, selecting "Refresh File List" from the "Tools" menu
(or hitting F5 on the keyboard) will restore the display of the items in
the collection.
If, outside of MasterCook, a cookbook, menu, etc. (or an entire collection
folder) was deleted. Normally, MasterCook will remove externally deleted
items from display as they are activated (e.g., double click), however,
selecting "Refresh File List" from the "Tools" menu (or hitting F5 on the
keyboard) will remove all deleted items from display at once.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Cookbooks - Viewing Cookbooks on Other MasterCook CDs w/o Installing Them
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cookbooks
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I have MasterCook Cooking Light 5.01 installed. I also have a CD with
MasterCook Deluxe 5.0. While in MasterCook Cooking Light 5.01, I inserted
the MasterCook Deluxe CD to see where I can find the cookbook collection
on it, but did not recognize any of the folders. I want to SEE what the
recipes are, if they are all high calorie and fat, I won't want to
download them even if I find them. I would just like to view them, without
having to install MasterCook Deluxe as well. Any suggestions?
A: When you are in MasterCook and in the Cookbook Browser screen select
Open from the File Menu and select your CD-ROM drive. After that, look for
a folder called SYSTEM and double click on that. After this there will be
a folder called COOKBOOKS and just double click on this. You should then
see all the cookbooks available in the Deluxe edition and then be able to
evaluate them for what you describe.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
ottermum
04-16-2005, 01:07 PM
* Exported from MasterCook *
Editing Recipes for Import
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Editing Recipes for Import:
Using the "4-field 5@" Format
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BY: Pat Hanneman 02/21/2000(Mon)
http://home.earthlink.net/~kitpath/sierra/genericMC.txt
Examples are good teachers so below are several recipes to
import. Mc 2 thru 6 will accept this format.
By "Generic," Sierra MasterCook is talking about a way of
arranging the major parts of a recipe. This format is
used when we want to import recipes from a plain text file.
The importer looks for four blocks. Each block
must be in the following sequence:
title
notes
ingredient
directions
[exception noted: Some of you have already found out that how we import
recipes depends on the format. The tips below HELP MC import 5@
formatted recipes FROM A FILE. ]
IMPORTANT: The blocks must be set off from each other
by a totally blank line; an empty line; no space.
IMPORTANT: SPACE? Each section must be flush left -- that means no
indentations in the ingredient rows. Also trim spaces from the
ingredients: that means only one space separately words and numbers.
IMPORTANT: Each recipe is set off with a line
of 5 "@" signs (see the examples)
(Incidentally, the note block is optional. If you don't have one,
jump to the ingredients block - leaving only one blank line
in between the title and the first ingredient.)
The ingredient block starts with one of the following: a
NUMBER; a unit in it's list; an ingredient in it's list
TIP: I've had more recipes fail to import because the first line
of the ingredient list didn't meet expectations.
Another assumption favors simple lists of ingredients.
Ingredient names don't have commas. We are expected to
say "1/2 cup sliced carrots" not "1/2 cup carrots, sliced."
Preparations can have more than one comma.
If the preparation field is long and there is a number, mc
assumes it starts a new ingredient.
This leads me to the last assumption: the number of
characters in a field. Even though MC5 allows longer
fields, the engine that controls the Generic import
doesn't. Here are the numbers:
Title: 59
NOTES : 998 as one continuous "line"
Ingredient: 42
Preparation: 22
DELIMITER: MC needs to know where a recipe begins. The
string of 5 symbols (the at sign or @) is used on a line
all by itself. The title must be on the next line.
Here then are some sample recipes to import. Each varies
slightly - and the variation deals with the note field.
Other than that, the recipe does what is expected.
These examples are meant to be imported from this file.
If you import them into a new cookbook, they will be
easy to locate and study.
ODDITY: There is no end of recipe marker unless you have
Version 4 for the Mac. It uses a series of 5 underscores
on a line all by itself with a blank line fore and aft.
---------------------Examples----------------------
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The Farm's Warm Artichoke and Spinach Salad
Benjamin Ford is the son of actor, Harrison Ford
--Warm Citrus Vinaigrette:
2 tbsp. walnut oil
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp. minced flat-leaf parsley
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tbsp. orange juice
1/2 tbsp. grated lemon zest
1/2 tbsp. orange zest
1/2 tbsp. fresh thyme leaves
1/2 tsp. minced garlic
1 1/4 cups chicken stock
3 tbsp. unsalted butter
Salt and pepper, to taste
--ARTICHOKES:
3 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
1 tsp. salt
4 fresh artichoke hearts
--TO ASSEMBLE:
8 cups young spinach, cleaned
4 tbsp. seasoned bread crumbs
VINAIGRETTE: In a small bowl combine all ingredients except stock, butter,
salt and pepper. In saucepan reduce chicken stock by half, then whisk in
butter. Whisk stock into vinaigrette. Season to taste.
ARTICHOKES: In a large saucepan bring one quart water, lemon juice and
salt to a boil. Add artichoke hearts, cover, reduce heat and simmer 35-40
minutes. Drain and quarter.
TO ASSEMBLE: Toss spinach with vinaigrette, divide among four plates.
Arrange artichoke heart on spinach. Spoon on remaining vinaigrette.
Sprinkle with bread crumbs. Serve immediately.
AUTHOR: By Benjamin Form, executive chef, "The Farm," restaurant in
Beverly Hills.
Source: Interview 1998 by KVIE - California Heartland Url:
http://www.californiaheartland.org
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Basic Vinaigrette with Tea
Tea replaces some of the oil.
1 clove garlic, peeled
2 tbs. extra virgin olive oil
2 tbs. red wine vinegar or lemon juice
2 tbs. strong brewed Earl Grey tea
1 tsp Dijon mustard
salt and pepper
1 tbs. chopped fresh parsley
Skewer the garlic clove onto the tines of a fork, and use it to vigoursly
blend oil, vinegar or lemon juice, tea and mustard. Taste and season with
salt and papper. Just before serving, stir in fresh herbs.
Makes 1/3 cup. Each tablespoon has 45 calories, 5 grams of fat, 0 grams of
fiber.
Source: Eating Well Secrets of Low-Fat Cooking.
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Peppermint Candy Cane Cookies
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups butter or margarine, softened
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. salt
1 egg
1/2 tsp. red food coloring
1/4 tsp. peppermint extract
In a large bowl, measure flour, butter, sugar, vanilla extract, salt, and
egg. With mixer at low speed, beat ingredients until well blended.
Set aside half of the dough. With the other half of the dough, knead in
red food coloring and peppermint extract until blended.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. On a lightly floured surface, roll one
rounded teaspoonful of the plain dough with hands into a 4-inch long rope.
Repeat, using same amount of red dough. Place the ropes side by side and
gently twist together, pinch ends and seal. Curve one end of the twisted
rope to form the handle of the candy cane. With a spatula, place cookie on
ungreased large cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.
Bake cookies 10 minutes until lightly browned. With spatula, remove
cookies and place on wire racks to cool. Makes about 4 1/2 dozen cookies.
75 calories per cookie.
Recipe from Steve Albaugh from Fall River Valley.
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Tip - Mint Ice Cubes
**Text only**
Place a clean whole fresh mint leave in each compartment of an ice cube
tray. Fill each compartment half way. Freeze overnight or until solid.
Serve as a special touch with ice tea or fruit spritzers.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - 112 or -113
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I keep getting an error -112 when trying to install this program. Can
anyone help me?
A: Although the following Sierra FAQ refers to error -113, it is always
possible it might be relevant for you as well:
[Start]
Error -113 occurs during installation.
System needs 32-bit drivers
The computer system is loading real-mode drivers.
Real mode drivers are drivers that are intended for use with DOS. They are
16-bit drivers and work poorly with Windows 95 or 98. To see if the system
is loading real-mode drivers:
* Right click on the MY COMPUTER icon, choose PROPERTIES from the menu.
* Click on the PERFORMANCE tab.
* Under Performance Status, read the line called FILE SYSTEM
* This line should read "32-BIT." If this line reads "Some drives are
using MS-DOS compatibility mode" or "All drives are using MS-DOS
compatibility mode," immediately contact the system or CD-ROM manufacturer
to correct this system problem.
* Once the computer system is loading 32-Bit drivers, the program should
install without errors.
[End]
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - Black Boxes Instead of Buttons
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I am seeing black boxes instead of buttons in the program. How can I
fix this?
A: I, too, have seen these. It usually happens when I am using the Edit
Print Design screen that is resource intensive. I rebooted my computer and
tried using the program by itself, with nothing else running in the
background, and they went away.
Check your system resources and see how low they are. Right click on My
Computer and choose Properties. See the Performance tab. When I start
seeing these black boxes my system resources are always very low. Reboot
your computer to reset them.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - Cannot Hide Elements in a Print Design
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: The directions and "recipe picture" still appear in the Classic Design
even though HIDE ALL has been selected. Reason: Recipe Picture and
Directions are not listed on the HIDE tab. How can I fix this?
A: The fields comprising one direction step need to be highlighted,
'locked' together as group, and the group given the name 'Directions'.
S(Formatted By):
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - Cannot Load Image
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Does this describe your situation? After a power outage or
reboot/reset/reboot experience you start MasterCook and the splash screen
starts but aborts and next you see a blank screen with the same message
repeating:
Cannot Load Image
Next time you try, it does it again! Here's a fix. Restart your computer
and leave MasterCook alone. While using Windows Explorer or My Computer go
to the MC TOOLS folder and look for a file called MC WORLD.MCW and delete
it. (MasterCook will recreate this file when it starts back up.)
This should fix the problem. Start MasterCook and see. If not, the next
step would be to uninstall/reinstall.
About MCWORLD.MCW. This file is similar to MasterCook 4's rocache.
MCWORLD.MCW is the main file where MasterCook stores all its file
locations such as cookbooks, tips files, collections, menus, etc. This
file can be corrupted with someone just abruptly turning off the power or
not shutting down properly. If a user has any type of FILE NOT FOUND you
can either delete this file or go to the Tools Menu and select Refresh
File List (If you are able to get into the program).
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - Corrupt Cookbooks
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Do you have a cookbook that won't open or crashes the program when you try
to open it? Is it a favorite, irreplaceable cookbook (NOT one that you
could easily recreate -- recipes collected from e-mail lists, etc.)? Post
a message on the message boards:
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.ee741bb
and the moderators will try to assist you. It would also be helpful if you
could give an estimated number of recipes that are inside the cookbook and
the size of the cookbook file. The only things that will be recovered from
the cookbook are just the recipes. Categories, cuisines, and other
classifications will be lost. It is very important to keep your files
backed up regularly! The recovery depends on how badly the file is
corrupted.
We don't know all the reasons that cookbooks become corrupt, but here are
a few things that are almost certain to cause corruption:
Generally cookbooks go corrupt when your computer runs out of system
resources, and you allow Windows to close the program. This prevents the
program from closing properly and oftentimes destroys the files. Never let
Windows close MasterCook for you. Cancel out of that Windows prompt and go
shutdown MasterCook yourself. Thankfully Windows XP doesn't have the
limited system resource problem that earlier versions of Windows have.
Hooray!!
If you are importing recipes into your cookbook and have a crash while
doing that, that can corrupt the file as well. This is also a very good
reason to be sure you are importing CLEAN recipes (those that are
formatted correctly for MasterCook). Oftentimes email programs add/remove
lines or cause word-wrap where it is not wanted. If you don't edit them
with a text editor before you import them, you are asking for trouble. The
program can freeze if you import "corrupt" text files, resulting in a
corrupt cookbook. Always import into a temp. cookbook, and if that goes
well copy them to a permanent cookbook. MasterCook expects recipes to be
in a certain format when importing. If you are not careful about what you
import, it can crash the program.
If your computer crashes while working on a cookbook (you run out of
system resources (copying LOTS of recipes and pasting them into a
different cookbook, etc.) to the point that crashes your computer; another
program crashes taking your entire system with it; your computer gets
unplugged, etc.), that can corrupt the file as well.
If you rename the *.mc2 file (cookbook file) outside the program (i.e.
using Windows Explorer), that can cause problems as well. Only rename the
file while inside the program. Select your cookbook and right click and
choose CUSTOMIZE COOKBOOK from that pop-up menu. Rename the book there.
S(Formatted By):
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - Corrupt Ingredients
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I have corrupted ingredients in my ingredient file. When trying to
delete them MasterCook crashes.
A: If you ran a ScanDisk and had fragments, it could cause corruption like
this. If you have a back-up copy of your MC Ingredients.ing file, then you
will need to replace the one in your MC Tools folder on your computer.
Just copy the MC Ingredients.ing file from the CD, replacing the one on
your computer.
After you have copied the file off the CD please sure make that you right
click on the file you copied over and change the property from READ ONLY
(indicated by a check mark). Having a read only ingredient list can cause
a lot of problems within MasterCook.
Apply this same changing READ ONLY properties to any file that you may
copy off the CD.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - Display Fonts Not Showing
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: When I try to change the font for Recipe Display some fonts are
missing. Why?
A: The first thought that comes to mind is that you may have too many
fonts installed.
As is known by many computer users who have experienced problems related
to too many fonts or corrupted fonts, one of the first indicators of this
problem is that some fonts 'disappear', in that the Windows registry no
longer recognizes them as valid fonts.
When a software application looks for a specific font in the
\Windows\Fonts folder and can't find the correct font, the application
will select a substitute font. If the application is forced to substitute
a font, it is logical to assume that the text in certain text boxes may
not be formatted correctly.
Following is the text of a message from Technical Support that describes
how to correct this problem:
[Start] This text problem occurs when the \WINDOWS\FONTS folder has
reached its limit, causing fonts to disappear from the system or to become
corrupt.
The Windows Fonts folder has a registry limit.
Detailed information on this subject is available at the end of this page.
The registry can only store a finite number of characters for the titles
of every installed FONT. When this character limitation is reached, no new
FONTS may be added to the registry.
To check the size and number of files in the FONTS folder:
- Open MY COMPUTER, the C:\ drive, and the WINDOWS directory.
- Right click on the FONTS folder in the WINDOWS directory and choose
PROPERTIES.
- Record the SIZE and number of FILES in the FONTS Properties window.
- If the Font folder is larger than 18 MB in size or contains more than
350-400 Fonts, the registry may have become corrupt.
- Close the Properties windows and open the FONTS folder.
- Highlight about 30 or more fonts and drag them to the Desktop.
- Go to START, SHUTDOWN, and select "Restart" the computer.
- After the computer restarts, try the program again.
- If the fonts appear normally, the font folder is full. Follow the
directions below to remove extra fonts.
- If the fonts are still missing, the Registry has become corrupt. It will
be necessary to remove excessive fonts from the system and to clean the
registry. Follow the directions below for DELETING fonts.
- To clean the registry, obtain a registry cleaning utility like
REGCLEAN.EXE, which can be downloaded from http://www.shareware.com. Be
sure to read the instructions that accompany this utility, as Sierra
cannot be responsible for any adverse effects of a registry cleaning
utility. For more assistance, contact the computer manufacturer or
Microsoft.
- Drag the fonts on the desktop back into the C:\WINDOWS\FONTS folder.
To DELETE FONTS from the system:
A good range of fonts to have on a system is 150 to 300 fonts. The font
folder probably can hold more fonts, but if future products are installed,
the registry may become full again.
To delete excessive fonts:
1. Go to START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, and open FONTS.
2. Delete fonts by highlighting each font and selecting DELETE from the
FILE menu.
NOTE: You can select several fonts at one time by holding down the SHIFT
key while clicking on the font name.
Be careful not delete Windows system fonts like ARIAL or COURIER. To
obtain a list of these fonts, contact Microsoft at
http://www.microsoft.com.
NOTE: Never delete a file listed in red in the \Windows\Fonts folder
because it is a system font.
3. If necessary run a registry cleaning utility (see above).
To REINSTALL FONTS:
Fonts may be downloaded from Internet sites like http://www.microsoft.com
or may be reinstalled from the CD-ROM.
DETAILED INFORMATION ON FONTS FROM MICROSOFT:
The following is an excerpt from the Windows 95 help files, on this
subject.
Microsoft Windows 95/98 SUMMARY
You can install a maximum of approximately 1000 TrueType fonts in Windows
95. The exact number of True Type fonts you can install varies, depending
upon the length of the True Type font names and filenames.
MORE INFORMATION
Installed TrueType fonts are listed in the registry and in the Graphics
Device Interface (GDI).
The Registry
All font files are registered under a single key in the registry, and a
registry key can not exceed 64K. If font names average 20 characters in
length and font filenames average 10 characters in length, the maximum
number of TrueType fonts you can install falls between 1000 and 1500.
If a TrueType font file is located in a folder other than the Fonts or the
System folder, the full path to the font is included in the registry,
using up more space in the key and reducing the number of fonts you can
install.
The GDI
The GDI contains an internal list of fonts, with 10K reserved for font
filenames. If font filenames average 10 characters in length, the maximum
number of TrueType fonts you can install is approximately 1000.
You can use all installed TrueType fonts simultaneously and you can print
them in the same document.
Note that the Windows 95 Resource Kit incorrectly states that there is no
limit to the number of True Type fonts you can install in Windows 95.
Contact Microsoft for additional assistance with the Fonts folder at
http://www.microsoft.com.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - Getting Kicked out of MasterCook When Trying to Edit Print Design
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: My system is NT. When I first used MasterCook I could edit the print
design. For some reason now I can't. It kicks me out of MasterCook. What
should I do?
A: I figured it out! The paper selection in Print/Publish Recipes was on
"custom", so the page numbers would show. The paper selection was on
"letter", and it would kick me out every time I tried to edit the design.
I went back to Print/Publish Recipes and changed paper to "letter". Went
into design edit and changed paper to "custom". Then I went back into
Print/Publish Recipes and changed it to "custom". Now it works.
S(Formatted By):
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Errors - Harvesting Good Recipes from Problem Cookbooks
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Errors
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Have you had trouble with a particular cookbook? Maybe the recipes will
not drag and drop over to a second book. Or maybe Search crashes
repeatedly on the same cookbook. There may be a way to fix the cookbook,
IF you can still get inside it.
One thing to look for is that you may have recipes with names that are
very very similar, like "Creme Fraiche" and "Crème Fraîche". Or you could
have a corrupt recipe. A corrupt recipe is always a bigger problem,
because it could eventually corrupt your entire cookbook. So do the
following steps anyway, just to be sure you don't have a corrupt recipe.
The following procedure can harvest the "good" recipes from your cookbook,
and it will work in any version of MasterCook.
Export the recipes: In MasterCook, display a list of all the recipes in
the cookbook (if using MC 5, 6.x, or 7, Sort By > Title). Choose to EXPORT
them all to a single file.
Export will crash when it comes to a bad (corrupt) recipe. Find the last
good recipe in the group by opening the export file in a text processor
and checking the name of the last exported recipe in that group.
Then reopen MC, SKIP the next recipe name in the list (because it's bad),
and continue from that following recipe down to the end of the list.
Export this second group to an export file 2, and continue in this fashion
until you've exported everything you can. (You might find that you need to
skip two or three recipes in a row before continuing.)
Use MC TagIt or MC Buster on the export file: After you have your files of
"good" exported recipes, be sure to run them through MCTagIt (or MC Buster
if v. 4 and under). TagIt ( http://mctagit.com/ ) and MC Buster (
http://thehoseys.com/ ) can help fix some problems with our recipes, and
alert us to those they can't deal with so we can look more closely at
them.
Reimport: Reimport into a NEW temporary cookbook. If they still don't copy
over from there to your permanent cookbook, you probably have a
too-similarly-named recipe. In that case, copying them over in smaller
groups will let you suss out the problem.
NOTES: Sometimes we can view the allegedly bad recipes in MC -- the ones
that wouldn't export. If so, you might be able to copy it and paste into a
text file, either by using Edit > Copy Recipe or by separately
copy/pasting the individual fields in turn (title, ingredients,
directions, etc,). If you can do this, REFORMAT that recipe from scratch
(do NOT try to edit the mxp format of the recipe at all; take it back to a
generic format).
When going through the export procedure, the MasterCook program itself
might start to complain. If it does, close down the program and move the
suspect cookbook off to a spare folder on your hard drive, outside the
MasterCook program files. Then reopen MC, refresh files (in MC 5 and up)
and use File > Open from the main MC menu to open the cookbook. (Refresh
files again in MC 5 and up each time you relaunch MC.) Rebooting your
computer periodically can help, too.
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Errors - How Can I Keep Windows From Crashing?
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The following article was copied from PC World some time ago and contains
some very useful information with regard to maintaining your computer at
peak performance level.
*****
How Can I Keep Windows From Crashing?
Answer Line
October 1999 Issue of PC World Magazine
Question:
Windows crashes with the regularity of the tides, usually when I haven't
saved anything to disk for a while. How do I make it more stable?
Answer:
Windows crashes happen -- that's just the nature of the beast. Here are
some of the most common causes of Windows crashes, along with measures you
can take to reduce the likelihood that your system will plummet to a fiery
death.
Out of resources:
Windows stores some vital information in the two 64KB sections of RAM
called resources. When they get filled up -- usually when you run a lot of
programs at once or keep your computer on for days at a time -- Windows
becomes unstable. To limit the frequency of your crashes, don't load
unnecessary programs, and reboot your computer every day.
Windows 9x retains Windows 3.x's system resource structure--two 64KB
sections of memory that are set aside for specific jobs. The GDI (Graphics
Device Interface) resources section stores fonts, bitmaps, and such for
on-screen display. When applications run, portions of the User resources
section go to their menu lists, window logistics, and other information.
The more crowded either section gets, the more unstable Windows becomes.
Every program you open grabs some system resources, but some programs
don't properly relinquish them once they've been closed. As you repeatedly
enter, use, exit, and reenter apps, the amount of available resources
continuously decreases. The only reliable way to free up resources is to
restart Windows.
Windows 9x comes with a tool for monitoring system resources. To access
it, insert the Windows CD-ROM and click Add/Remove Software. In the
resulting dialog box, click the Windows Setup tab. In the Components list,
double-click Accessories (Windows 95) or System Tools (Windows 98). Then
scroll down, locate, and check System Resource Meter.
To run Resource Meter, click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools,
Resource Meter, and the meter will appear as a tray icon. Hover the
pointer over that icon to see current resource levels or double-click it
to keep the numbers on screen while you work. The User and GDI halves are
independent and a lack of either can wreak havoc, so Resource Meter takes
the percentage free of the smaller half and reports that as the percent of
free system resources (see first line on the Resource Meter).
Video drivers:
When the code controlling your display gets confused, it takes everything
down with it. If you're getting video-specific error messages frequently,
check your graphics board vendor's Web site for a more up-to-date driver.
Corrupted registry:
This one's likely to happen when you install an application. Windows backs
up the Registry regularly, but if you've been living with the crashes for
more than a few days, you're unlikely to have a backup that will help.
Windows 98 comes with a tool that might fix the problem: Exit Windows to
the DOS prompt. At the prompt, type scanreg/fix, press <Enter> and cross
your fingers.
Viruses:
If something that used to work is suddenly giving you trouble, you just
might have caught some malicious code. Make sure your antivirus software
is up to date. If you don't normally ask it to check all files when you
start up your computer, perform an all-file check at least once a week.
Mismatched system files:
Installation programs can replace existing Windows .dll files. You've
probably seen a dialog box during a software installation that said the
program has found a later version of a file on your hard disk than the one
it is installing. If you chose to install the earlier version, programs
expecting the original .dlls can get confused and bring down the house.
A less severe solution comes in commercial "undo" packages such as Wild
File's GoBack and Kiss Software's Undo & Recover Toolbox, which help you
recover from faulty installations.
Bad applications:
Sometimes an application will do something it shouldn't -- such as use a
piece of RAM reserved for another program -- with potentially drastic
results. Windows keeps an eye out for such behavior and, in theory at
least, closes the gap before it can crash Windows. But it doesn't always
work that way. If Windows regularly crashes when you use a particular app,
check the application vendor's site for bug reports.
Hardware:
Bad memory, dying power supplies, overheated processors, poorly connected
cables, or badly seated boards are all capable of destabilizing your
operating system. If nothing else solves your problems, unplug and then
open your computer. Excessive dust can cause overheating, so you might try
using a small vacuum cleaner or compressed air blower (made specifically
for PCs) to clean it up. [Always remember to touch something metal - to
get rid of any static - before touching anything inside your computer.]
Also check to make sure the cables and boards are connected properly.
If you continue to experience frequent crashes, take your computer to your
service vendor for a professional checkup.
If nothing else works and the crashing becomes intolerable, maybe it's
time to wipe out and reinstall Windows. For details on how to do this,
check out http://www.pcworld.com/sept99/answers
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Q: I double click on the MasterCook icon, and the MasterCook screen comes
up. I can click on any picture except the cookbooks, and it will come up.
Every time I click on cookbooks I get the following message:
MasterCook caused an invalid page fault in module RTCDLL.DLL at
015f:3076afa8.
I can do a search and pull up recipes. What happened, and how do I correct
it?
A: This person refreshed their list of files (select Refresh File List
from the Tools Menu or press the F5 key while in the Cookbook Browser),
and it solved their problem.
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If MasterCook has trouble or gives us a page fault error when trying to
convert recipe titles to title case (see: Customize Cookbook > Recipes
Tab), MasterCook might be trying to capitalize a symbol, which has no
title case.
Also one symbol isn't the same in the two standards: ANSI and ASCII. What
looks like an n with a tilda on your system may look like a spoked degree
sign on someone else's.
This is why we advise people not to use symbols when sharing with others
who may have different operating systems and character sets. They aren't
reliable.
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Errors - Jenny Craig Pictures
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Q: When I open cookbooks from Jenny Craig in MasterCook 5.x/6.x it
corrupts the picture files. Can anybody help?
A: This same thing happened to me and others. This only happens with this
product - Jenny Craig. The actual picture data is in a different format
than that in other products. The only work-around we have come up with is
to take a screen shot (of the picture in version 4.0) and crop the recipe
picture and then add it to your version 5.x or 6.x cookbook.
Unfortunately, due to copyright concerns, Sierra is not able to provide
these photos on its website in a new format. Post a message on the e-mail
list or message board and see if someone will share pictures that they
have captured screenshots of, and then you can add these pictures to your
version 5.x or 6.x cookbook.
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Errors - Mcmeal~1.DLL is Not a Valid Previous Version
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Q: I ran mc51updt.exe to install patch 5.01. I got the following message:
C:/SierrMaster~1/Program/Mcmeal~1.DLL is not a valid previous version &
could not be upgraded. Now when I try to print a recipe, I get the
following message:
Unable to create Service: 'CSel'-'Publish' Am I going to have to
re-install MasterCook 5.0?
A: The DLL is corrupt, so you will need to backup your cookbooks and
ingredient file, if you edited it, and any other files you created, and
then reinstall MasterCook 5.0 and the patch. Make sure all programs are
shut down including virus scanners first.
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Errors - Not Enough Disk Space
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Q: When I try to open a New Recipe, I get a message that tells me "Not
enough space on disk. Remove unnecessary files...." I have several GB of
hard drive space free. How can this problem be corrected?
A: Are you trying to create a new recipe in a cookbook that is stored on
your CD? If so, you will get this error. You will need to create a new
cookbook and add recipes to it. You cannot add recipes to cookbooks that
are stored on the CD.
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Q: MasterCook is sending me back to the main screen and not letting me
back into the program again. This is the third time now. All patches are
on. All installation has been done with virus scans off. MC World.mcw has
been deleted as instructed. I have refreshed the file list. There is no
error message about failure to load. Any suggestions?
A: I had the same problem this morning. I was putting some cookbooks in.
You will find you have put a cookbook in that has one of the following
problems.
1. The spelling and/or spacing is changed from the file name.
2. You did not get a complete download from an x-file.
3. You are trying to put a cookbook in that really needs to be imported.
The easiest way to find the problem book is to remove the last batch you
put in and put them in one at a time and refresh. When you get to the
problem one it will act up. If you are putting them in one at a time take
the last one out and refresh again. You may have to shut it down all the
way to correct the problem and restart the computer. I had to after each
one to find the culprit. I hope this helps you!
Follow-up: It worked! Thank you SO much! It was easy to suss out which
"cookbook" was the problem. The wonderful part was after moving it out of
MasterCook, I didn't have to uninstall, etc. All that was necessary was
closing MasterCook. It opened again beautifully.
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Q: When I attempted a spellcheck I received the following error messages:
error opening dictionary file d:/sierra/mastercook5/program/userdic.tlx,
and the same again for ssceam.tlx, ssceam2.clx and mcdict.clx. The files
are at their respective path names. Any ideas?
A: I would recommend you back up your files and reinstall.
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Q: When I attempt to click on the Palette button there's no response.
Visually the button appears to go in and out. My computer meets all of the
necessary requirements.
A: Sometimes you move the Palette window off the screen and close down the
program. When you use the program the next time the Palette seems to have
disappeared. It is there but it is shoved off the screen and you can't see
the title bar to grab it and move it back onto the screen.
There are several things you can try. First I would recommend you cascade
or tile your windows for the programs that you have opened. Right-click on
a blank space of the task bar along the bottom of your computer and choose
cascade or tile, then resize the windows.
There is a program called 401comupd.exe inside the Comupdate folder on the
CD. I would recommend you install that and see if it helps.
All preferences for MasterCook are stored in the MSTRCOOK.INI file such a
Window sizes, placements, etc. For the palette in Edit Design that is also
stored in the preference file. The MASTERCOOK.INI file is stored in the
Program folder inside the MasterCook 5 or MasterCook 6 folder. Find this
file and load it in a plain text editor such as NOTEPAD and find the
following:
Show Palette=0
PaletteLeft=0
PaletteTop=0
This will be located under the header [Publishing Layout]
Delete those 3 lines
Show Palette=0
PaletteLeft=0
PaletteTop=0
Save out the file and reload MasterCook. You will then have to turn the
palette back on but it should be back on the MasterCook window.
This problem has been addressed in ValuSoft's version 6.2 program. In the
Edit Print Design window, if you drag the Palette so that the Palette
window is more than half way off the screen, when you go elsewhere in the
program and return you will find that it moved the Palette back into the
screen. Now that's very cool!!
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Q: I installed SierraHome's MasterCook 6.0 Betty Crocker and left the
pictures on the CD (Typical Installation). However, when I try to view the
pictures in Betty Crocker's Best Christmas Cookbook, I cannot see them
even though the CD is in the drive. How can I view them?
A: The MASTERCOOK.INI file needs to be edited under [PicturePacks]. The
line says this: PicturePack2=Betty Crocker Best Christmas Cookbook. It
should say this instead: PicturePack2=Betty Crocker's Best Christmas
Cookbook. Notice the difference in the name of this file. It needs the 's
added.
1. CLOSE MasterCook.
2. OPEN the MASTERCOOK.INI file (which is located in the MasterCook
6/Program folder) with NOTEPAD and add the 's to that line and save the
changes and exit NOTEPAD.
3. DELETE the MC World.mcw file in the Mc Tools folder. (This will save
your changes with the program. The program will recreate this file when it
starts back up.)
4. START MasterCook and try the cookbook. It should now show the recipe
pictures when the CD is inserted.
I tried the rest of the cookbooks on that CD. These ones below need their
lines edited in the MASTERCOOK.INI file as well and need a 's added:
Betty Crocker's Best Christmas Cookbook
Betty Crocker's Best-Loved Recipes
Betty Crocker's Great Grilling
and Betty Crocker's Healthy New Choices
To fix the About Betty Crocker — Your Best Friend in the Kitchen, you will
need to copy the name of the file on the CD and paste it in the INI file.
The INI file doesn't show the emdash properly.
To fix the Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cookbook, you can add a new
PicturePack line to the MASTERCOOK.INI file. Copy one of the previous
lines and then pasted it at the end of the others and give it the next
number in the sequence. Then edit that line to read the Betty Crocker's
Good and Easy Cookbook. Make sure the Count at the top of this section of
the INI file is the same as the number of PicturePacks you have listed.
Be sure to do this when the program isn't running and don't forget to
delete the MC World file before you start the program back up again.
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Q: We just had a terrible thing happen. While in shopping list, the
message that an illegal action had been taken and that it was shutting
down. We can't find the reason and can't open the shopping cell now. We
have spent weeks getting this up and running - the pantry lists etc. HELP!
We have not run into this before and hopefully it can be remedied soon.
Please help ASAP.
What I mean is that when Shopping is clicked on, no lists appear. I can
neither add, delete or view lists that have been made. It is "closed" to
me. When I click on various other options i.e., MasterCook, menu etc. all
"open" and are there for me to use, see, edit etc. as usual. What
suggestions do you have to help me access my lists in a program that
obviously has a mind of its own.
When I try to click on the Shopping button, it no longer brings up the
program which has my lists etc. No matter how I try to get into the
shopping/pantry window, I no longer can. When the "illegal etc." display
came up and it also said it was shutting the operation down, I guess it
meant it. Can you think of a way to reestablish access to the shopping
lists/pantry other than through the navigation bar at the bottom of the
screen. I have also tried accessing it through menus etc. All other
navigation bar items work fine.
A: The last shopping list and/or pantry touched may have become corrupt.
The shopping view opens to the last shopping list so it may be dying on
the attempt. Using Explorer, you could look in the MC Tools folder for the
most recently modified *.sl file and move it out of the folder
temporarily. Then, hit the F5 key on your keyboard while in MasterCook (or
select Refresh File List from the Tools Menu) and try to go to shopping.
If that fails, repeat procedure removing the most recently modified *.pl.
If that fails, repeat procedure removing ALL *.sl and *.pl files.
If that fails, reinstall.
Once you have success opening the shopping view, start replacing *.sl and
*.pl files (hit F5 each time) until the problem child is found. The
corrupted file will probably have to be deleted.
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If users encounter the message similar to the following:
"Unable to create view: 'Cnts' - 'open'"
it means that the MCReg.ini file has become corrupt or the install is
corrupt (one or more DLLs missing).
The MCReg.ini file registers all of the functional elements of the
MasterCook application. If deleted, it will be re-created on application
startup. A quick way to check if this is the problem:
1) Close the application.
2) Delete MCReg.ini from the 'Program' folder (where the MasterCook.exe
lives).
3) Start the application.
If the problem still occurs, the user should re-install.
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Errors - Video Not Available
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Q: I just purchased the 5.0 version - my first MasterCook experience - and
am trying to get everything loaded and running correctly. I've updated to
5.03 and have installed QuickTime 4.1. Each time I start MasterCook, I
get, "Video not available - cannot find "vids:msvc" Decompressor. What is
this and what to I do about it?
The Video "vids:msvc" Decompressor problem happens when I first start the
program. The Tip videos seem to work fine - although sometimes they're
interrupted before finishing. I moved the splash screen as per a tip I saw
here and the problem stopped but now I can't see the opening video - Oh
well - it looks like everybody wants to turn it off anyway. I suspect it
may have something to do with the new version of QuickTime I downloaded.
A: Problem Solved! Tech Support got back to me and pointed out that the
Windows multimedia video compressor was probably missing and told me how
to find and install it. I did and now the splash screen works just fine.
Problem: Video Tips (Only sound plays in tips) When playing a Video Tip,
only the sound plays, and no pictures appear.
Solution: Reinstall Video Compression.
If the sound plays, but no pictures appear in when running the videos,
reinstall Windows Video Compression:
1. Close any programs or windows that are currently open.
2. Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, and click the Windows Setup
tab.
3. Double-click on Multimedia.
4. Uncheck Video Compression. Press OK, and then OK again to remove this
component. Now click on OK to exit Add/Remove programs.
5. In Control Panel, again click on Add/Remove Programs and then the
Windows Setup tab.
6. Double-click on Multimedia.
7. Check Video Compression. Press OK, then OK again, and Windows will
reinstall this Multimedia component. Windows will also require the Windows
'95 or '98 CD to copy the required files over to the hard disk.
8. Now, try the videos again.
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Exchange - Advantages and Disadvantages to Using Your Default Mailer (MAPI)
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Pros:
* You can use the nicknames in your address book
* You can add bcc and cc instead of putting everyone's name in the To:
field.
* You can edit the attached recipes; you might want to add your email
address to each.
* You can delay sending the mail. Change that setting in your email
program: uncheck the instruction to send mail immediately.
* You can retain a copy of the mail you send.
Cons:
* Direct access is faster than MAPI.
* Your e-mail program may add or remove blank lines.
* Your e-mail program my cause your lines to word wrap.
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Exchange - AOL and CompuServe 2000 Users
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Q: I am connected to the Internet through AOL and cannot get the email
feature on MasterCook to work. I just found out that AOL uses propriety
message exchange protocols that don't work with most other programs so
there is no POP3 or SMTP address to enter. Is it even possible for me to
use the email feature through AOL or am I going to have to try to find a
free 3rd party service to go through?
A: From Sierra Tech Support:
Unfortunately you will not be able to use the email feature in MasterCook
with AOL. MasterCook requires a PPP connection to e-mail recipes. AOL does
not have a PPP connection.
Internet support on AOL is somewhat proprietary and getting support for
direct-connect Internet applications like MasterCook has been difficult.
MasterCook requires a direct connection to the Internet in order to pass
the information from the MasterCook application to a mail server or
gateway. AOL does not currently support such a direct connection. You will
need to go about sending recipes a bit differently.
Try sending the recipes like this:
1. Open the recipe you wish to mail.
2. Go to the RECIPE menu and choose EXPORT RECIPE.
3. In the FULL NAME box, type the name of the recipe. (Note: Pay close
attention to the folder to which the file is being exported; usually
C:/SIERRA/MasterCook5.)
4. Then go online and into your standard email program.
5. Create a new email for the recipient(s) of your recipe(s).
6. Use the "attachment" function of your email program to attach the
exported recipe (*.mxp).
7. The email recipient will be able to import the *.mxp file into their
own cookbook.
8. To import an *.mxp file, go to FILE and choose IMPORT RECIPE.
9. Select the attached recipe file (*.mxp) and click on IMPORT.
That should allow you to successfully send your recipe files to other
MasterCook users. Non-MasterCook users can open the *.mxp recipe in a word
processing program like MS Word or Notepad.
A: AOL users can copy recipes and paste them into a new e-mail. This would
be the best option for sending recipes to e-mail lists. Sending a file
attachment to most lists is a no-no. Some servers don't accept attachments
and in that case, an attachment gums up the works. The new AOL6 and
CompuServe 2000 don't send plain text only e-mail. This causes a problem
for the mc-recipe e-mail list. You need to use the Web Mail option
instead. Open AOL and sign on, then minimize AOL. Open Internet Explorer,
go to www.aol.com and sign on. Choose the Mail tab for Mail. On the AOL
Mail page, press the Write icon at the top right.
A: Although I haven't tried it, I believe others on AOL have also used the
Export function to send recipes in both MasterCook 5.0/6.0 and 4.0 format.
Basically, they export recipes to a file from MasterCook 5.0. Then open it
in AOL. AOL issues a message indicating that it does not understand the
format but will try to open it in text format (which is okay since the
file is a text file). Then simply select all text and paste it into the
body of your message.
A: AOL users have never been able to use the e-mail feature of MasterCook.
The MasterCook 4 manual states on page 73: "The Recipe Mailer requires the
appropriate TCP/IP software on your computer. On Windows, make sure that
you have the WINSOCK.DLL file which is installed with any network package.
On the Macintosh, make sure both MacTCP and OpenTransport are supported.
Unfortunately, the Recipe Mailer cannot take advantage of online services
such as America Online and Prodigy unless the service provides some sort
of TCP/IP connection, such as SLIP or PPP."
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Embedded Recipe Exports More Than Once
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: How do I keep my embedded recipe from exporting more than once? I have
several "master" recipes in a cookbook that have the same embedded recipe.
It exports this embedded recipe for each "master" recipe plus once for
itself.
A: Copy all the recipes to another cookbook (cookbook #2). Create a third
cookbook (cookbook #3). Copy the recipes from cookbook #2 into cookbook
#3. Delete cookbook #2. Export from cookbook #3.
NOTES: When you copy recipes to another cookbook, it keeps them linked to
the previous cookbook unless you delete that cookbook. If MasterCook can't
find the deleted cookbook, the recipes can't export. Renaming cookbook #2
doesn't work either; you have to delete it. Also notice these embedded
recipes will still open because MasterCook searches the current cookbook
first before looking elsewhere (in the assigned cookbook) for the embedded
recipe.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Exporting Cookbook to Print at Kinkos
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: Is there any way to save the cookbook to Microsoft Word and edit from
there? Also, is there any way to save it to disk and take it to Kinkos,
etc. to be printed?
A: You could export your entire cookbook in Text Only and edit that in
Word and save to disk to take to Kinkos. Someone else got a printer driver
file that they installed in Windows. They printed their cookbook to a file
using Kinkos' printer driver.
A visit to Kinkos <http://www.kinkos.com/print.jsp> shows that they have
software now to preview what other programs print.
One of their pages says they accept these file types:
You can send us a file saved in any of these formats: Paper Size
- 8.5" x 11" (letter)
- 8.5" x 14" (legal)
- 11" x 17" (tabloid, ledger) File Type
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Corel WordPerfect
- PostScript / EPS
- Rich Text Format
- Text File
- Kinkos File Prep KDF
- Adobe Acrobat PDF
Adobe, postscript, and text files are options with MasterCook. You might
investigate the Kinkos File Prep driver as well.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Exporting Recipes From Several Cookbooks
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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If you want to export/email recipes as a group from three different
cookbooks, you can use the MasterList. The message on the email form says
that we can "drag and drop to add recipes to the list below." The
MasterList makes this possible. There is even a button in the mail form
that opens the MasterList.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Extra Code When Exporting Recipes
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: Whenever I email a recipe to a friend, they respond that it has all
kinds of extra symbols and letters which makes it very hard to read. Is
there any way to just send the text only without all the extra stuff?
A: MasterCook 5.x and 6.x reads/sends XML code, which is similar to HTML
code. This helps it to be accurate of where the different parts of the
recipe go (source, copyright, cell #2 of directions, etc.). When you
e-mail a recipe to some one you have several choices on the format of the
recipe. If they, too, are using MasterCook 5.x or MasterCook 6.x, then I
would recommend you send it to them in the 5.0/6.0 Format Only (see this
option in the Export and Mail window). If the person doesn't have
MasterCook versions 5.x or 6.x, then you could send it in Text Only. If
you want to send a recipe to an e-mail list, you would want to send it in
the Text Only format.
INFO FROM THE README.TXT INCLUDED WITH MASTERCOOK 5.x:
IMPORT/EXPORT: SENDING RECIPES BY E-MAIL
When importing MasterCook 4.0 cookbooks (MCF files), it is recommended you
have only one window of MasterCook open.
When selecting the Text Options that you use when sending recipes by
e-mail, you need to consider the version of MasterCook the recipient will
be using:
If you select "5.0 only", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) in MX2
format. If you look at this format in a text editor, it will look odd to
you because it is in XML, a format that is becoming popular on the
Internet. This is the best format to use if you want to make sure that you
don't lose any information in the export process. When you use this format
you will not need to use the Import Assistant to bring recipes back into
MasterCook.
If you select "Text only", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) as text.
Use this when you want to use the recipe text in another program and want
to make sure that you have every bit of text that you entered. If you want
to import this recipe back into MasterCook, you might want to consider
using the Import Assistant if you think that you might lose some
information.
If you select "4.0 only", MasterCook will export your recipe in a format
that can be imported into MasterCook 4.0. This is useful if the person
receiving the recipe does not have MasterCook 5.0. Note that exporting as
4.0 format may cause some information, such as long category names, to be
lost. This occurs because the fields in 5.0 are much longer than the
fields in 4.0 and text, such as a long recipe title, may be cut off in
some instances. Recipes with several thousand characters in the directions
field may also be reported as corrupt when opened in MasterCook 4.0.
If you select "4.0 and 5.0", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) in both
formats in the same document. This is useful for those who have signed up
to exchange recipes on the MasterCook Recipe Exchange mailing list and
want to make sure that those who still have MasterCook 4.0 can import the
recipes as well.
INFO FROM THE README.TXT INCLUDED WITH SIERRAHOME'S MASTERCOOK 6.0:
IMPORT/EXPORT: SENDING RECIPES BY E-MAIL When importing MasterCook 4.0
cookbooks (MCF files), it is recommended you have only one window of
MasterCook open.
When selecting the Text Options that you use when sending recipes by
e-mail, you need to consider the version of MasterCook the recipient will
be using:
If you select "5.0/6.0 format", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) in
MX2 format. If you look at this format in a text editor, it will look odd
to you because it is in XML, a format that is becoming popular on the
Internet. This is the best format to use if you want to make sure that you
don't lose any information in the export process. When you use this format
you will not need to use the Import Assistant to bring recipes back into
MasterCook.
If you select "Text only", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) as text.
Use this when you want to use the recipe text in another program and want
to make sure that you have every bit of text that you entered. If you want
to import this recipe back into MasterCook, you might want to consider
using the Import Assistant if you think that you might lose some
information.
If you select "4.0 only", MasterCook will export your recipe in a format
that can be imported into MasterCook 4.0. This is useful if the person
receiving the recipe does not have MasterCook 6.0. Note that exporting as
4.0 format may cause some information, such as long category names, to be
lost. This occurs because the fields in 6.0 are much longer than the
fields in 4.0 and text, such as a long recipe title, may be cut off in
some instances. Recipes with several thousand characters in the directions
field may also be reported as corrupt when opened in MasterCook 4.0.
If you select "5.0/6.0 and 4.0", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) in
both formats in the same document. This is useful for those who have
signed up to exchange recipes on the MasterCook Recipe Exchange mailing
list and want to make sure that those who still have MasterCook 4.0 can
import the recipes as well.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Getting MAPI to Work
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Some ISP don't let us use MAPI. In Canada, we can't use MAPI in MasterCook
if we're on @home cable hookup.
I have Outlook Express open when I send through MasterCook -- MAPI is
checked in MasterCook. What happened was it sent the email to my outbox in
OE and then I could send it on it's way from there. Did you have OE open
at the time? I did not try it without having OE open, but that might be
your problem.
Same thing with Eudora. MasterCook sends the mail to my outbox and it's up
to me to send it. It depends upon how you have your outgoing mail set. To
send immediately or wait. I have mine set to wait, so I send a bunch all
at once.
If I don't use MAPI (but use Internet Mail Server instead) and DON'T have
an Internet connection going, MasterCook WILL start up my dial-up
connection. It is the same dial-up connection dialog box that Internet
Explorer uses when it connects to the Internet.
I couldn't get MAPI to work in the beginning either. When I first selected
to e-mail with MAPI in MasterCook, the program locked up and quit
responding after I pressed the Send button. I had to close down MasterCook
and start over. I then went to my e-mail program (Eudora) and found that I
had to go into the Tools/Options and turn ON MAPI there as well. Only then
was I finally able to export from MasterCook using MAPI to this list.
When I use MAPI, I fill out the mail form in MasterCook, it opens Eudora.
All MasterCook needs to make it work is an address, and it likes to have
something in the Subject field.
With my programs and my setup, I can use MAPI only when Eudora is running.
For some reason, other programs have trouble launching Eudora; it must be
up and running or minimized.
I've tried turning MAPI off (using Internet Mail Server instead). When
MAPI is turned off, MasterCook wants you to be on-line and it will send
messages directly. It won't dial for me. ISP's may act different, too.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Mail, Setup: Myname (address)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q. I've just been playing with the mailer in MasterCook. In the setup it
asks for both name and email address, but it doesn't use both. I would
like my name to appear with the address.
A. Where it say's "Your E-Mail Address" type your name and then address
like this example:
Name <me@myisp.com>
replacing your name and e-mail address in the example above, then your
name will appear in the From e-mail header instead of your e-mail address
when you receive the recipe. Some people have experienced problems with
this, however. It seems the problem is related to how your ISP reads this
line. I've only been able to enter the info if I don't use ANY spaces at
all in that box. Others have only been able to use the e-mail address in
this box and nothing else. *shrug*
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Nutrition Analysis Exports
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q. Is there a way to NOT email the nutritional analysis? I get it when I
use copy/paste too. I'd rather use the nutrition from the sources or
mention that the nutrition is based on my linking everything. We have no
way of knowing if the NA is based on links or not!?!?!
A. We can turn it off for printing or delete it by hand from the e-mail
(if you use simple MAPI or paste the recipe into an email message), but
that's it for now.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Nutritional Association Re-links the Ingredients
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Don't erase that nutr assoc line at the end of mxp recipes. It contains
links to ingredients in the table. and if the ingredients were not new
ones, then we reestablish the links when we import a recipe with the nutr
assoc index.
It works when we import from file or -- if you have MC 5/6 -- import using
the Import Assistant.
To see how it works in MC 5/6 open the text file below. It has an mxp
formatted recipe. MXP is the import/export style used by Mastercook prior
to MC 5. Highlight the recipe from the "* Exported..." header THROUGH the
nutr assoc index line. Paste it into the Import Assistant's window. Then
highlight the whole thing again and use autofill. Notice how LINKED
ingredients import.
* Exported from MasterCook *
Green Beans and Leeks with Oregon Hazelnuts
Recipe By
Serving Size 8 Preparation Time 000
Categories
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Boiling salted water -- in 2 pans
2 pounds fresh green beans
4 leeks
4 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup Oregon hazelnuts -- toasted and chopped
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
Trim Off Ends Of Beans And Slice Diagonally In 2" Pieces. Trim Outer
Leaves Of Leeks And Slice Into 2" Diagonal Pieces. Cook In Separate
Pans (See Above) 7 To 10 Minutes Or Until Tender-Crisp. Drain And
Rinse With Cold Water To Stop Cooking. Melt Butter In Large Frying Pan
And Add Beans, Leeks, And Oregon Hazelnuts. Sauté Until Heated
Through, Sprinkle With Lemon Juice, Season With Salt And Pepper If
Desired.
Source
"Dundee Hazelnuts & The Oregon Hazelnut Industry"
S(Internet address)
"http//www.teleport.com/~nuts/index.html;
http//www.oregonhazelnuts.org/"
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Per serving 192 Calories (kcal); 14g Total Fat; (61% calories from fat);
4g Protein; 15g Carbohydrate; 16mg Cholesterol; 74mg Sodium Food Exchanges
0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 2 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 2 1/2 Fat; 0 Other
Carbohydrates
Nutr. Assoc. 0 3568 3891 0 3677 0
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - PDA > Exporting Recipes (Version 7.0 Only)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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One of the exciting new features of MasterCook 7 is the ability to export
recipes and shopping lists to your PDA. MasterCook 7 supports Pocket PC
and Palm OS devices. To export a recipe to your PDA, perform the
following:
1. Navigate to the recipe you would like to export.
2. Choose File / Export and Mail….
3. Select the Export to PDA tab.
4. When you are satisfied with the recipe list to export, click Export.
5. If you have a Pocket PC, your recipe(s) will be copied directly to your
device. If you have a Palm OS device, the recipe files are added to your
hotsync queue, to be added to your device the next time you synchronize.
6. When the recipe(s) has been successfully transferred to your device,
open the MasterCook viewer software on your handheld and click on Tools /
Refresh Recipe List.
7. Your recipe should now be viewable on your PDA.
NOTE: If you have a Pocket PC device, your device needs to be connected to
your PC before you select this option.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - PDA > Exporting Shopping Lists (Version 7.0 Only)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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One of the exciting new features of MasterCook 7 is the ability to export
recipes and shopping lists to your PDA. MasterCook 7 supports Pocket PC
and Palm OS devices. To export a shopping list to your PDA, perform the
following:
1. Navigate to the Shopping List screen.
2. Select the shopping list you would like to export to your PDA.
3. Click on File / Export Shopping List to PDA.
4. If you have a Pocket PC, your shopping list will be copied directly to
your device. If you have a Palm OS device, the shopping list files are
added to your hotsync queue, to be added to your device the next time you
synchronize.
5. When the list has been successfully transferred to your device, open
the MasterCook viewer software on your handheld and click on Tools /
Refresh Shopping List.
6. Your shopping list should now be viewable on your PDA.
NOTE: If you have a Pocket PC device, your device needs to be connected to
your PC before you select this option.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - PDA > Using the MasterCook Viewer Software (Version 7.0 Only)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Once the viewer software is installed on your device, it is ready to use.
To launch the software on your device, click on MasterCook in the apps
list. The interface has 3 tabs, Recipe List, Shopping List, and Tools.
Recipe List Tab:
The main screen under the Recipe List tab is a list of all the recipes you
currently have installed on your device.
To view an existing recipe, simply click once on the recipe name you wish
to view.
The recipe viewer has 4 tabs: Ingr (Ingredients), Dir (Directions), Nutr
(Nutrition), and Notes,. Simply navigate through the tabs as necessary to
view all your recipe information.
You can also edit a recipe from this view by clicking on the Edit Recipe
button at any time. Please note that the nutrition information on the
nutrition tab is not editable. These values are pulled directly from
MasterCook.
From the recipe list main screen, you can also click the Add Recipe button
to manually enter a recipe onto your device.
Shopping List Tab:
The main screen under the Shopping List tab lists all of the shopping
lists you have installed on your device.
To view an existing shopping list, simply click once on the shopping list
name you wish to view. Each item in your shopping list has a name, status
(have or need), quantity, unit, and store location.
You can sort the list by any of the columns by clicking on the column
header. This is especially useful to sort by store location help you as
you are shopping.
Another time saver is the list box next to the Edit button which allows
you to filter your list to show all items, only the items you need, or
only the items you have.
You can Add, Edit, or Delete any of the items in the list by clicking on
the appropriate button.
From the shopping list main screen, you can also click the Add Shopping
List button to manually enter a shopping list onto your device. The system
will prompt you for a list name. After you enter a name and click Add New
List, an empty list with the specified name is added to your shopping
lists. Simply click on it to add and edit your items.
Tools Tab:
The tools tab is used to refresh your recipe list and/or shopping list
after you have exported a shopping list or recipe from your PC to your
PDA. There is a button to Refresh Shopping List and one to Refresh Recipe
List. Note: New recipes or shopping lists exported to your device will NOT
show up in your lists until you refresh the list using these buttons.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - PDA Software Overview and Install (Version 7.0 Only)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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MasterCook 7 now supports downloading recipes and shopping lists to a PDA.
In order to view the MasterCook recipes and shopping lists on your device,
you need the MasterCook viewer software installed on your handheld. This
software is supplied for Pocket PC and Palm OS devices on the MasterCook 7
installation disk. The PDA software allows you to do the following on your
handheld:
Download & View MasterCook 7 Shopping Lists.
Download & View MasterCook 7 Recipes.
Add New Recipes and Shopping Lists.
Edit Recipes and Shopping Lists.
Check off items in your shopping lists as you buy them.
Sort by shopping list items by store location (aisle, department, etc.).
Choose to show all shopping list items, only those you have, or only those
you need.
Note: At this time you cannot upload the recipes and shopping lists on
your PDA back to the MasterCook program.
To install the viewer software on your device, simply put the MasterCook 7
disk in your CD-Rom drive and wait for the Installation Menu to come up**.
On the installation menu, you will have the option to click Install
MasterCook 7 for Pocket PC, or Install MasterCook 7 for Palm OS, depending
on the device you have. Click on the appropriate link to install the
software on your device. If you have a Pocket PC device, the device must
be connected to your PC at this time. If you have a Palm OS device, the
application will be added to the hotsync queue to be installed on your
device the next time you synchronize.
** If the installation menu does not come up automatically, go to Start /
Run, type in D:\Setup.exe (where D is the letter of your CD-Rom drive),
and click OK.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Pocket PC > Using the MasterCook Viewer Software (Version 7.0 Only)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Once the viewer software is installed on your device, it is ready to use.
To launch the software on your device, click on Start / Programs /
MasterCook. The interface has 3 tabs, Recipe List, Shopping List, and
Tools.
Recipe List Tab:
The main screen under the Recipe List tab is a list of all the recipes you
currently have installed on your device.
To view an existing recipe, simply click once on the recipe name you wish
to view. The recipe viewer has 4 tabs: Ingredients, Directions, Notes, and
Nutrition. Simply navigate through the tabs as necessary to view all your
recipe information.
You can also edit a recipe from this view by clicking on the Edit Recipe
button at any time. Please note that the nutrition information on the
nutrition tab is not editable. These values are pulled directly from
MasterCook.
From the recipe list main screen, you can also click the Add New Recipe
button to manually enter a recipe onto your device.
Shopping List Tab:
The main screen under the Shopping List tab lists all of the shopping
lists you have installed on your device.
To view an existing shopping list, simply click once on the shopping list
name you wish to view.
Each item in your shopping list has a name, status (have or need),
quantity, unit, and store location.
You can sort the list by any of the columns by clicking on the column
header. This is especially useful to sort by store location or have/need
status to help you as you are shopping.
Another time saver is the Show list box which allows you to filter your
list to show all items, only the items you need, or only the items you
have.
You can Add, Edit, or Delete any of the items in the list by clicking on
the appropriate button.
From the shopping list main screen, you can also click the Add New List
button to manually enter a shopping list onto your device. The system will
prompt you for a list name. After you enter a name and click OK, an empty
list with the specified name is added to your shopping lists. Simply click
on it to add and edit your items.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Publishing to the Web
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
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Q: I've created a favorite recipes collection and would like to convert it
to publish it to my web site. I haven't found a way to do this. Does
anyone have any suggestions?
A: MC doesn't convert recipes to an html file. Most of us use an html
editor of some sort. Either a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage or PageMill or
the one that comes with Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Explorer, etc. Or
we learn to tag.
Example with PageMill:
1. Open PageMill and start a new document.
2. Open MasterCook and copy a recipe (ctrl+C) or use the menu.
3. Paste the recipe into PageMill.
We can control how it will paste by setting preferences in the HTML
editor. The HTML editor will convert the paste job with standard codes.
Then we edit the result.
You could export a number of recipes to a file using the "text format" and
insert that file in the HTML editor.
On the other hand, you could offer a text file that is viewable by a
browser. Export recipes using the Text Only format. Check that box to
break up lines (that's word wrap). Make sure the file has a *.txt
extension. Then upload to your website. Make a link to it and people will
be able to download a copy or view it online.
This answer is complicated because there are many ways to go. It depends
on how you want to offer the recipes. For examples of how others do it,
Pat has a page of links to people who offer mc-formatted recipes. Go here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~kitpath/MC/MCRecipes.htm
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Setting Word Wrap in E-Mail Programs
Recipe By :
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Categories : Exchange
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If the goal is to make a mailer stop editing paragraphs into short lines,
then we can either (1) turn word wrap off, or (2) reset the critical
value.
Some programs, like Eudora, let us turn word wrap off. Other programs,
like Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Mail, don't let us turn word wrap
off but do let us change the value to something big like 400, 640, 800, or
2560).
NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR (menu choices vary slightly by version)
* Edit: Preferences...
Mail & Groups: Click Messages
Uncheck "By default, send HTML messages"
* Reset word wrap's value to something big: 800
MS INTERNET MAIL
* Format: Settings...
* Up the number.
OUTLOOK EXPRESS
* To set word wrap in Outlook Express go to Tools, Options, Send, Mail
sending format, Plain text, Settings button. It cannot be changed,
however, if you are using HTML as the mail sending format. OE won't let us
turn word wrap off. We can increase the line length to 132.
EUDORA (menu choices vary slightly by version)
* Tools: Options... Sending Mail
* (or Special: Settings ...)
* In version 4x, you can turn it on or off on a message-by-message basis
using the Word Wrap icon or button visible when using the editor.
PEGASUS
*Go to Tools, Options, and Message settings. In the Message width space, I
do believe you can add any number you want. I do not see any setting to
turn off word wrap all together.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Sharing Pictures with Recipes
Recipe By :
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Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Wondering how to share a recipe and include a picture too?
We've been sharing the compiled files, the ones with both the mc2
(recipes) and mcx (pictures) extensions. That way, the other person just
opens them in mc5/6.
You could make a new cookbook and copy your recipes with pictures to it
and send just the new cookbook to share.
To share with people who don't have MC 5/6, you can point at the picture,
click the right mouse and copy.
The next steps depends on your mailing program. You could paste the
picture directly in the mail and send it that way (embedded). Or open a
graphics program, create a new picture and paste the copy there. Save it
and send it to the other person.
You could also paste the recipe and the picture in a word processor's
document.
It's always going to be a two files because they are two different files
types.
I should add that the file with the pictures can get very, very large,
larger than saving the files as jpgs (a compressed format) and sending
those.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Time Stamp When Exporting Recipes
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
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Q: When I e-mail recipes directly from the program the time appears to be
wrong. It doesn't match my computer time. Why?
A: The time is sent in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Tips for groups.yahoo.com Exchange Lists
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Since there are quite a few popular recipe exchange groups at yahoo.com,
we thought we'd set out a few tips to make your recipe collecting more
MasterCook friendly. While these tips are specific to Yahoo, they are
useful for troubleshooting difficulties you might be having at other
sites, as well.
First, make sure the mail you send/receive is NOT in html. MasterCook does
not care for html formatting. (The digesting software used by many sites
can be really confused by html messages, as well.) So avoid fancy
signatures and fonts, colors, etc., when you are sending. If you use your
own email program to send messages, set its options to use plain text, at
least when your recipe lists are the addressee. By default, Yahoo will
convert e-mail sent to you to html, so you should check this setting every
time you join a list:
Go to groups.yahoo.com and log on. Choose "My Groups", and then "Email
Preferences"
Then, for each email address where you receive your list mail, choose
"Options"
Make sure that there is a checkmark beside "Do not convert to HTML. Don't
change the format of email sent to me."
If you prefer, you can change your preferences by the group. For each
recipe exchange group you belong to, click on "Edit My Membership" and, in
the section "Message Format" make sure that there is a checkmark beside
"Do not convert to HTML. Don't change the format of messages sent to me."
Second, seriously consider saving your list mail into text files and using
MCTagIt ( http://mctagit.com/ ) to process it into a file your MC can
import. Even if the list messages are already in MasterCook Format, TagIt
can actually FIX some of the problems caused by different email programs,
such as those caused by mis-wrapped lines. However, if you access your
list through web-only (using the Messages section for your group), message
spacing is subtlely changed; text-format recipes (*.mxp or MC 4 format)
will not be "true" mxp, and TagIt will not be able to process them. To
solve this, view the individual message online and use the Forward command
(just under the Messages title bar) to send the message to yourself. At
the bottom of the form, UNcheck the box to wrap message text. (You'll get
a confirmation that "your message has been posted" but the message will be
forwarded to you, not posted again to the group.) TagIt will be able to
process a text file of your forwarded e-mail message.
Third, make sure you are not victimized by too-short lines. This is
especially important if your group includes the xml (5/6/7 Export Format)
version of recipes. Lines that wrap unexpectedly can corrupt the recipe,
and maybe your cookbook, too. If you send mail to the group from your own
email program, set its options either to not use word-wrap at all, or to
INCREASE the line length (word-wrap) to the largest number possible.
Use the following steps to set line-length for sending mail from yahoo.com
and for the mail it sends you:
Go to yahoo.com and log on. Select the icon for "Mail" at the top of the
screen. On the Mail tab, choose "Mail Options"
On the Mail Options page, choose "General Preferences", which is the first
item in the column titled "Personalization"
On the General Preferences Page, scroll down to the section titled
"Messages."
Change the setting for "Screen Width: (viewing plain text mail)" to the
highest number possible (99).
Change the setting for "Screen Width: (composing plain text mail)" to the
highest number possible (99).
Click the SAVE button
[revised 12/02/03]
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Using MAPI Mail Clients (Outlook, Eudora, etc.)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q. How do I configure MasterCook to work with other mail programs such as
Eudora or Microsoft Outlook?
A. All you need to do in MasterCook is set up "simple MAPI." You may also
need to set it up in your communications software.
Eudora 4.x
From the Menu: Tools, Options, Click MAPI
* Use Eudora MAPI Server: Always
* Send single MAPI file attachment as inline attachment (*.txt and HTML
files only)
* OK
PEGASUS 3
Q. I was attempting to send a test mail using Pegasus and MAPI but
couldn't do it. Is Pegasus MAPI compliant? And if it is, how do I set it
up?
A. I installed MAPI to use with Pegasus and it worked great.
This it what I did. Using Windows Explorer I went to my Pegasus (Version
3.1 for Win32) program folder and found this file "wpmmapi.exe", double
clicked on it and followed the instructions for installing.
Before installing MAPI there are some cautions to be aware of. If you have
Windows Messaging or Outlook you may want to investigate further before
doing this. You will have to make a choice between installing Simple MAPI
and the other newer MAPI 1.0. Look in your Pegasus help folder for their
information.
When you have that finished, Go back to MasterCook, open a cookbook, click
on a recipe that you want to export, Press Ctrl+M (or File/Export and
Mail). From the "Sent To" pop up window there are 3 tabs, choose the tab
labeled "Mail" and click on the button (at the top right) labeled "setup"
and then click on "Use Simple MAPI Client", then click on "OK". Now try
exporting the recipe to Pegasus. It doesn't seem to matter if Pegasus is
open or closed when you export.
OUTLOOK EXPRESS
Make sure OE is set as your default e-mail program. Select Options from
the OE Tools Menu. Use the General tab and look near the bottom. Select
the Make Default button. (To change this back to another e-mail program
use the Control Panel and select Internet Options and use the Programs
tab.)
NETSCAPE MESSENGER
I gave this a try myself with Messenger:
1. First I closed down Eudora (my current default e-mail program).
2. Started Netscape and chose to start Messenger. At this point I was
prompted if I wanted to make Messenger my default mail program, and I
selected YES.
3. Selected Preferences from the Messenger Edit Menu.
4. Put a checkmark in the box: Use Netscape Messenger from MAPI-based
applications. Pressed OK.
5. Started MasterCook. Selected a recipe and chose Export and Mail from
the MasterCook File Menu.
6. Selected the Setup button in the Import window. Selected Use Simple
MAPI (**NO checkmark in the Disable MAPI Client Interface**). Selected OK
button.
7. Filled in the To (with my e-mail address to test this), Subject and
Message fields and pressed the send button. At this point MasterCook sent
the recipe somewhere (the progress bar worked fine).
8. Looked in the Sent folder in Messenger, and yes, MasterCook sent the
recipe there.
9. I send/get mail with Messenger, and the recipe is now in my Inbox.
I usually use Eudora. I have never used Messenger before now and didn't
mess with any other Messenger settings, so all other settings are default.
I am using Netscape version 4.7. I wonder if the version of Messenger
makes a difference? Also, I have both Messenger and MasterCook running
when tried this. I then tried this with Messenger closed down and it still
worked (MasterCook sent it to Messenger).
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Using MasterCook's Mail Applet
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Exchange
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q. I can't send mail. I try but nothing happens. How do I send recipes
from MasterCook?
A. Click the Setup button from the mail window and see which method of
sending is checked.
MasterCook gives us two choices.
1) Simple MAPI
2) Internet Mail Server
The (2) Internet Mail Server is the preferred method to send recipes
because the recipes will be sent as the program intends, without an email
program manipulating the text (wordwrap, adding text formatting, etc.)
They are sent directly from MasterCook w/o going through an e-mail
program. You may need to establish your Internet connection going before
trying to send your recipe.
Select MAPI if you want MasterCook to pass the message on to your usual
(default) mailer. (WARNING: Your email program may manipulate the text in
ways you won't desire.) Next, make sure that MAPI is "enabled" as an
option in your e-mail program. Some mailers don't support this but most of
the biggies do: Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator,
etc. The message will be passed to the outbox in your mail program. Your
e-mail program will send it out from there. You may need to have your
e-mail program running before trying this. IMPORTANT: Sometimes e-mail
programs remove or add blank lines in your messages. This does create
problems when you try to import this recipe back into MasterCook.
NOTE: Since AOL doesn't support MAPI or SMTP, AOL users will need to paste
recipe(s) into an e-mail message or export the recipe(s) and send the
recipe(s) as an attachment. Keep in mind that most e-mail lists don't
allow attachments though. You may need to do the same thing if you have
web-based e-mail, like Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - What is MAPI?
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Think of MAPI as e-mail. It lets other programs use your communications
software.
MAPI is the acronym for Messaging Application Program Interface: a
protocol or standard that other programs can count on working a certain
way.
When MAPI is on or enabled, MasterCook opens your e-mail program,
addresses the mail, copies any message you've written and attaches
recipe(s). The attachment can be sent as a separate file or included in
the body of the text -- you set this up in the email program.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Exchange - Word-wrap has Several Meanings
Recipe By :
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Categories : Exchange
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Q. I thought word wrap was a good thing. Some of my friends cannot read my
mail because the lines are too long so I use word wrap. Isn't word wrap
what words do when they hit the edge of the window? Doesn't that mean
word-wrap is on?
A. Word wrap is something that happens to text.
You don't see it happen while you are typing or editing mail. Word wrap
happens out of sight, during the process of sending the message. The
mailer will re-format the lines so none is longer than 76 or 80
characters.
Most email programs let you the maximum line length. Some programs let you
turn word wrap off.
Technically "wrap" refers to the automatic truncation of a long line of
text in an e-mail message. Some e-mail programs automatically insert a
hard carriage return when a line of text in a new or received message
exceeds a specified number of characters in length (76 characters is
typical). When a message has been forwarded -- and thus re-wrapped by
several e-mail programs -- it's not uncommon for it to contain unnecessary
carriage returns. Some e-mail programs provide a means of cleaning up such
text to restore it to a tidier appearance.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
ottermum
04-16-2005, 01:09 PM
* Exported from MasterCook *
Illustrated Importing directions
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IMPORTING RECIPES THAT ARE IN MASTERCOOK FORMAT
If the recipe is exported from MasterCook or Meal Master it will already
be in a format that MasterCook recognizes. It will say something like *
Exported from MasterCook * at the beginning of the recipe. Like this:
You can select Import from the File menu to import these types of recipes.
You don't need to edit these recipes first. In fact you shouldn't because
MasterCook expects there to be blank lines in certain spots and certain
spaces between words, etc. This is how it tells where one section of a
recipe ends and another begins.
If you receive a recipe like the one above in the Inbox of your e-mail
program, you can use Simple MAPI to import it. MasterCook can read your
Inbox (not any other mailboxes, however) and import one e-mail at a time
(not several at once). This is great when you have a recipe that you want
to import immediately into MasterCook. Here's how:
1. Select Import from the File menu in MasterCook.
2. Place a checkmark in the box for Use Simple MAPI and notice the Inbox
icon that immediately appears just above it:
3. Click on this Inbox icon to get MasterCook to scan the Inbox of your
default e-mail program. Then you can select an e-mail message from the
upper right corner of the Import window. NOTE: You need to be using an
e-mail program that supports MAPI though -- like Outlook Express, Eudora,
Netscape, etc. AOL does NOT support MAPI or SMTP, so it will not work.
You can also save the recipes as a plain text file *.txt (not a Word
document, etc.) by selecting Save As from the File menu of your e-mail
program or web browser and save it to your computer. Then choose Import
from the File menu and direct it to the *.txt file on your computer by
selecting the folder in the upper left corner of the Import window. Then
the files in that folder will appear in the upper right corner of the
Import window. You can select ONE of these files and MasterCook will list
the recipe titles that are inside that one file in the lower right corner
of the Import window. (It can only import one file at a time, but that one
file can contain more than one recipe.) NOTE: With AOL you can NOT 'Save
As' from e-mail. It saves as Rich Text Format, not plain text. You will
need to copy the text of the e-mail and paste it into NOTEPAD to Save As a
plain text file with AOL.
If you are having troubles with MasterCook not recognizing recipes inside
the *.txt file, chances are the formatting has been messed with. Sometimes
e-mail programs can add or remove the blank lines between recipe sections,
etc. If this is the case, you will need to get the recipe back into a
format that MasterCook recognizes before you can import it.
Sometimes you will come across web sites that have several recipes in a
file that you can easily import into MasterCook. For example, if you visit
Mad's Recipe Emporium (http://madsrecipes.tripod.com/) you will find
recipes that are already in MasterCook format. The files available here
are in ZIP format. You will need a program like WinZip to extract the
recipe file from the ZIP file. Once you get the recipe file out of the ZIP
file then you can import it into MasterCook by selecting Import from the
File menu and directing it to the recipe file. The reason why people use
ZIP files is because ZIP files are smaller, compressed files and take less
time to download. However, you will need to get the recipe file out of the
ZIP file before you can use it.
IMPORTING RECIPES THAT ARE NOT IN MASTERCOOK FORMAT
If you get recipes in e-mail or find some on the Internet that are not in
MasterCook format, you have several options:
1. Hand type them in.
2. Use the Import Assistant. (<-- Click on underlined link for example).
3. Set them up in a plain text file in a format that MasterCook can
recognize. See KitPatH's example: <Click Here>
You can hand type them in or copy/paste and drag/drop text from an e-mail
message or web page into an newly created recipe in MasterCook. TIP: Did
you know you can highlight a set of ingredients and copy them to the
Windows clipboard and then have MasterCook parse them out for you in the
ingredient section? Here's an example:
1. Copy some ingredients from a web page:
2. Put your cursor in the ingredient section of a recipe in the Recipe
Edit view:
3. Select Paste Text into Ingredient from the Edit menu:
4. And it will parse out the ingredients for you:
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Import Assistant - Auto-fill is not Working
Recipe By :
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Q: I copied recipes from an internet site into a MSPublisher document. The
Import Assistant will take most of these recipes if I "Move to Recipe" the
different sections, including Ingredients. Auto fill only adds the Title
even when Title, Ingredients, & Directions are highlighted. A few of these
recipes ARE accepted by auto-fill, though. What is wrong?
A: I think the problem is that you are going from an MS Publisher document
to MasterCook's IA. I just copied a recipe from the internet and pasted it
into a Publisher document, which I then saved as a Publisher document with
the .pub extension. Then I copied the recipe from the pub document into IA
-- everything in the recipe went into the title, even though I had
separated the different sections of the recipe by totally blank lines in
the IA window.
When I copied the same recipe directly from the internet site (I used
foodtv.com) into IA, the recipe went in properly.
Then, I copied the Publisher recipe text into Notepad. There were odd
characters in the ingredient section that Notepad did not know what to do
with, so it rendered them as boxes on the screen. So there are some sort
of extra characters in there. Even when I backspaced in IA to delete
trailing spaces in the ingredient line (or what showed as trailing
spaces), IA still had trouble with the recipe. It looks in Notepad like
the odd character is not at the end of the ingredient line, but at the
beginning of a new ingredient line instead. And IA is not translating
whatever it is into a space or box you can see on screen.
I save my internet recipes into Notepad plain text files because I am sure
that extra formatting will not be preserved. I suggest that you try
copying your Publisher-saved recipes into Notepad, and cleaning them up,
then using IA to import them. See if that won't work better.
NOTES: The recipe should be in this format below in the Import Assistant
if you are going to be using the Auto-Fill button:
Recipe Title
<insert a blank line here>
list of ingredients
<insert a blank line here>
directions follow
You could also have your recipe in this format as well:
Recipe Title
<insert a blank line here>
Recipe Notes (these will auto-fill to the notes section)
<insert a blank line here>
list of ingredients
<insert a blank line here>
directions follow
*I make sure there are no hidden characters between the recipe sections by
putting my cursor in front of the first ingredient and then using the
Backspace key up to the end of the recipe title and then use the Enter
key. This way I know there is a true blank line inserted between the
recipe title and ingredients. I do the same thing in between the
ingredients and directions as well as between the recipe title and the
notes.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Import Assistant - Pam's Illustrated Import Assistant Instructions
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Visit this web page for illustrated Import Assistant instructions:
http://mc6help.tripod.com/UsingIA.htm
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"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Adding MasterCook-Formatted Cookbooks or Recipes
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I have some MasterCook Cookbooks and MasterCook Export Files that I
have downloaded. I would like to import them into a particular MasterCook
cookbook - can this be done? When I click on the file it immediately opens
to MasterCook and want me to name the cookbook. If I try to import it,
MasterCook does not read it as a file that can be imported. How do I
handle this?
A: For cook*book* files, you need to add the cookbooks to MasterCook
first. Then you can move the recipes to whatever other cookbook you like
and delete the original cookbook. The MasterCook Export files can be
imported into MasterCook in your chosen cookbook.
You need to know the actual file extension so you can see how to deal with
the files. If Windows is not showing you the file extension of the files,
you can change this. In Windows Explorer, while you have the folder
containing your downloaded files highlighted, Tools > Folder Options, then
the tab for View. Scroll down the list. In a section called Files and
Folders, UNcheck the option for "Hide file extensions for known file
types." Then OK out.
MasterCook cookbook files have the following extensions:
.mcf (if the cookbooks are in MasterCook 2/3/4 format), or
.mc2 (if the cookbooks are in MasterCook 5/6 format).
If the file extension is *.mcf , you need to add the cookbooks to
MasterCook 5/6 by going to the main MasterCook menu and choosing
File>Open, then directing MasterCook to those cookbook files. MasterCook
will make its own copy, so the original *.mcf file can be deleted.
If the file extension is *.mc2 , you add the cookbooks by using Windows
Explorer to move or copy them to an MasterCook collection folder on your
hard drive. Then open MasterCook and press F5 or Tools>Refresh file list
for the cookbooks to be displayed in your cookbook browser. If you just
double-clicka mc2 file, MasterCook will open the cookbook and register its
location. Ordinarily, you would want this cookbook to be in a folder with
your other cookbooks, so you can back it up easily.
For the "MasterCook Export" files (these will have the .mxp or .mx2
extensions), you should open MasterCook and then choose "Import" and
direct MasterCook to those files. Do this with the target cookbook
highlighted or open, and MasterCook will place them there. (TIP: Always
import to a special cookbook first, just in case there is something
corrupt in the recipes.) If you just double-clicka MasterCook Export file,
MasterCook will open and want to create a separate cookbook for the
recipes, even if there is just one recipe in that file.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Corrupt Recipe After Import
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: How come after I import a recipe from MasterCook 5.x/6.x into a
previous version, when I go to view the recipe, I get a "recipe corrupt
error?"
A: This more than likely isn't due to the XML code in the recipe, but
rather because previous versions of MasterCook DON'T support the longer
fields, such as in the ingredient and prep sections of the recipe nor
numbers in the prep section.
Preps longer than 20 chars and what earlier versions considers extra
numbers in the prep field will cause problems.
MasterCook3 has that problem of wanting numbers - integers in the units
field and will bump them there if we give it the chance.
For example, MasterCook 5.x/6.x will export an ingredient line like this:
3/4 cup butter or margarine -- (1 1/2 sticks) room temperature
If you change it to 1.5 or 1+1/2 sticks, MasterCook 3 will accept it in
the prep field.
To work well in MasterCook3 (and 4) try substituting this:
3/4 cup butter or margarine
or 1+1/2 sticks -- room temperature
This is how the MasterCook version 4 for MAC will import the above
ingredient line:
3/4 cup butter or margarine -- (1 1/2 sticks) room temperature
If there are NOTES :
MasterCook 3 and 4 will keep importing stuff into the notes field until it
reads something that stops it. like "Per serving."
Five underlines (+++++) will stop MasterCook 4.
There is no stopper for MasterCook3, it just keeps loading until it (a)
runs out of room in the note or (b) reads something it recognizes, like
the end of the file or words in the e-mail header (which comes in handing
when importing from a digest).
This ONLY happens with notes.
Also, the fields in MasterCook 5.x/6.x are much longer than the fields in
4.x, such as a long recipe title, and may be cut off in some instances
when being imported into earlier versions of MasterCook.
Recipes with several thousand characters in the directions field may also
be reported as corrupt when opened in MasterCook 4.x.
Please also remember when saving e-mail, it needs to be saved in text
format, not HTML. HTML will cause problems too when importing recipes.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Duplicate Recipes
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: How does MasterCook handle duplicate recipes during import?
A: At the end of the import process it shows you which recipes have
duplicate names. This information is displayed in two side by side
windows, original recipes and newly imported recipes. You are then able to
preview both recipes (by opening) and choose whether to keep them both
(the new one will have a '2' after it) or delete the duplicate. "REMOVE"
is only intended to remove the recipe from the list of duplicates - not
from the cookbook.
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"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Import Recipe Titles Displayed in Bold
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: Does anyone know why some recipes are listed in bold while others are
in plain text while viewing the list of recipes in the Import window
before importing them?
A: I figured this out by clicking on the question mark in the dialog box
and then clicking on the recipe names. It states the recipes in bold are
the MasterCook 4.0 formatted recipes. The recipes that are NOT bold are
the MasterCook 5.x/6.x formatted recipes.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Mac Cookbooks
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I previously had my recipes on a MAC computer using MasterCook. Now I
have a PC and am using MasterCook Deluxe 5.0/6.0. Will I be able to import
all the recipes I have in files that I have created? If so, how?
A: This is straight from the MC4 User's Manual, page 37, if you have that
version. They are talking about the .mxp and .mcf formats, which MC used
up until the introduction of MasterCook 5.0:
[quote]
Because both MasterCook for Windows and MasterCook for Macintosh use the
same file format, each program can read cookbooks created or edited with
the other. . . . If you're using Windows, all you have to do to read a
MasterCook for Macintosh cookbook file is:
- Give the cookbook file an "eight and three" file name -- an
eight-character file name followed by a three-character file extension,
with the file extension ".MCF".
- Save the cookbook file on a disk formatted for DOS/Windows.
[end quote]
So once you have your Mac cookbooks properly named and saved on a
Windows-formatted diskette, you can start MasterCook on your PC, and then
choose Open from the MasterCook 5.0/6.0 File Menu and direct the program
to your floppy drive. MasterCook will make its own copy of the cookbook.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Mangia! Recipes
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: How do I get my recipes transferred from Mangia to MasterCook?
A: Unfortunately Mangia doesn't allow you to import or export recipes from
it. If you can't export your recipes (get them out of the program), then
you aren't going to be able to import them into another program like
MasterCook. MasterCook cannot read Mangia's cookbook files (*.ckb) so it
cannot open them either. What others have done is select all the recipes
inside one of their Mangia cookbooks and use the Generic/Text Only print
driver to print the recipes to a file (*.prn). Then they edit that file
(*.prn) to get the recipes into a format that MasterCook recognizes and
save the file as a plain text file (*.txt) to import into MasterCook.
The best way to make sure you get all the information included in the
recipe from Mangia is to select a layout that shows the most recipe
sections before trying to print to file. For example, double click on a
recipe to open it up. From the Recipe Card menu choose Select Layout. If
you use 16" Display Layout you will see most of the recipe sections
(course, servings, method, etc.) However, if you use Just Recipe (letter
size) it will NOT show the course, method, etc., therefore it will not
print to file either.
For more information on printing to file see this discussion:
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.eecd5f1
For more information on importing recipes into MasterCook 5.x/6.x see this
web page:
http://mc6help.tripod.com/ImportingRecipes.htm
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Micro Cookbook Recipes
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I have Cookworks Micro Cookbook 5.5. All my recipes are loaded on this
software and I want to import these recipes into MasterCook. How can I do
this?
A: The two programs don't share exactly the same fields, but Micro
Cookbook will export to MasterCook file format. You could then rename it
so that your text editor will open this file.
This from MasterCook version 4 README.TXT file. I'm including all of Micro
Cookbook's versions for the record. I see that Micro Cookbook version 5.5
is newer than the ones listed here so you will need to search the menus
and help file in Micro Cookbook to find a way to export recipes to a plain
text file. See if it will export in MasterCook or Meal Master format. Edit
the resulting file so that MasterCook will import it. Check out this
website for more info about the MasterCook format:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/2073/
* Problem: How do I export a recipe from Micro Cookbook 3.x? (Windows
version)
* Solution: Click on File in upper left corner of the screen. Click on
Open Cookbook. Select a cookbook by highlighting it and clicking on Open.
Highlight a chapter to select it. Click on the arrow to the left of the
cookbook name to see a list of recipes within that cookbook. Choose a
recipe to be exported by highlighting it and double-clicking to view the
recipe. Click on File, then select Export as Text. Create a name for the
file to be exported and click Save.
* Problem: How do I export a recipe from Micro Cookbook 3.x? (DOS version)
* Solution: In main menu press the <F1> key, to Select a Recipe from an
Index. Using the arrow keys, select the recipe by highlighting the name
and clicking on Enter. In the recipe view use the arrow keys to highlight
FUNCTIONS in the lower right hand corner. Click on Enter. On the drop-down
menu use arrow keys to highlight F8 Export Recipe and press enter or <F8>.
Create a name for the file to be exported (up to 8 characters), or use the
default name that appears. Click on Enter.
* Problem: How do I export recipes from Micro Cookbook 4.x?
* Solution: Highlight a cookbook to view recipes. Click OK. In the Recipe
window, type a recipe name to search the database or use the scroll bar to
search for a recipe. Click on the recipe(s) you want to export (the box to
the left of the recipe will be marked showing which recipes you've
selected). Click the View button to the right. Click the printer icon on
the tool bar. In Print Options window, click on the box next to "Print to
Text File". Click OK.
* Problem: How do I export recipes from Micro Cookbook 5.0?
* Solution: At the start, click on Recipes. In Micro Cookbook 5.0
Categories select a category by clicking on the View button in the lower
right corner. Select a recipe by highlighting it and clicking again on
View. In Recipe View click on the Print icon located on the tool bar. In
the Print window click on the box located next to "Print to File", then
click OK. In the Print to File window, type a name for the file you will
be exporting. Select a drive and/or directory and click OK.
The main thing that is different about the two formats is Micro Cookbook
lets us put the preparation before or after the ingredient. MasterCook
expects the preparation to follow the ingredient, so that can mess up
import unless you edit your Micro Cookbook recipes with MasterCook in
mind. Another difference is Micro Cookbook also has subtitles and
MasterCook doesn't. You could move the subtitle to Micro Cookbook's note
field or somewhere in the directions to make sure you don't lose that.
Use Import (from the File menu) into MasterCook, not the Import Assistant.
The categories, serving sizes and author should export. I recommend you
try exporting a few Micro Cookbook recipes to an MXP file and importing
them into MasterCook. The results will give you some hints on how to edit
Micro Cookbook recipes to import into MasterCook with fewer problems.
You might want to check out NoteTab, clipbooks and MC-TagIt, too.
NoteTab is a versatile plain text editor. Clipbooks make it great.
http://www.notetab.com/libraries.htm
MC-TagIt is like MC Buster. MC-TagIt is a freeware utility written by
Gail. MC-TagIt is a tool that converts recipes (generic and mxp) into
MasterCook 5.x/6.x tagged format - MC-TagIt recognizes the new fields in
the new MasterCook. http://www.mctagit.com/
Pat Hanneman wrote a clipbook to prepare recipes for MC-TagIt. Look for
Pat's clipbooks here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~kitpath/MC/MCResources.htm#ntp
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - More Than One File at a Time
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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MasterCook can import many recipes at one time, but it can only look in
one file at a time. So what do you do if you have saved your
MasterCook-formatted recipes in individual files?
Do you have Word? You could use Word's Insert>File to combine several
files into a larger one. You might be able to find or construct a macro to
do this. If you really have a lot of files, the macro would be worth
investigating.
Do you have NoteTab? (You can get a free version by download at
http://www.notetab.com ) I find that the tabs at the top help me keep
better track of where I am when I do copying and combining. Open multiple
documents at a time in one step. You can use the right-click "copy all"
choice to quickly copy an entire file to the clipboard, then hop over to
the "master document" tab to paste -- same screen and very easy to see. Or
designate your "master document" as a paste board (Document > Use as Paste
Board) -- anything you copy will automatically be pasted on your "master."
This saves having to select the text first -- one step saved! And you can
easily change the default document folder so your folder of choice opens
up first and you don't have to surf to it. Keep Windows Explorer open at
the same time so you can move the finished files right out of the queue.
And a really old-fashioned way -- use DOS. This assumes that all your
files have the same file extension (such as *.txt) and that they are all
in the same folder/directory/drive. Open a DOS window and change to the
directory/drive where you keep your files (the new combined file will be
created in the directory you start with). Then type:
copy *.txt allfiles.doc
Note that the two file extensions are different. It doesn't really matter
too much what they are as long as they are not the same. This will create
a new file (allfiles.doc) that contains your individual txt files, and you
will still have the individual files unchanged. One source indicates that
this will not work unless the total file length of the new file is less
than 64,000 bytes, so you may end up moving files and folders around to
make several larger files (allfil1.doc, allfil2.doc, etc.) of the
appropriate length. Then you can use Word or another text editor to copy
and paste together (or use Word's Insert>File).
MORE: The copy command seems to work better from within a single drive and
directory (folder).
So set your txt files up in a single folder (directory) -- only 64,000
bytes total in each folder. Then exit to DOS, then change directories with
the cd command until you are in the same directory as your files -- all
*before* actually giving the copy command. (Prior experiments indicated
that this procedure didn't work as well if the individual files and the
new combined files were on a different drive. So stay in the same drive,
and work with files within the same directory (folder) just to be on the
safe side.)
When using the DOS method, make sure:
You have enough room for the new file
The file extension of the new 'master' combined file is different from the
extension of the files you want to aggregate.
You rename the new combined file to have a *.txt extension before you try
to import into MasterCook.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Previous MasterCook Version Cookbooks
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Do you have cookbooks from a previous version of MasterCook that weren't
converted when you installed MasterCook 5.x/6.x?
You can open cookbooks written by MasterCook versions 2, 3, and 4. Select
Open from the MasterCook 5.x/6.x File Menu and point it to your *.mcf
files. MasterCook will make its own copy, leaving the cookbook intact that
it converted from.
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"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Recipes From AOL
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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AOL 4 uses HTML and rich text -- that makes it's hard to import recipes
into MasterCook. Hard because it won't save as plain text.
Because I use AOL 4.0, I can't just save a MC-Recipe post as a .txt file
and then import it (like I used to do with AOL 3.0) because it carries
HTML tags that cause MasterCook 3.03 to choke. So what I have to do is
"select" the text of the e-mail and then save it to a file in NoteTab Std
(or Microsoft's Notepad). I don't even have to use NoteTab's "strip HTML
tags" function. I just can't use the "Save As" function with the entire
e-mail.
So I "selected" the entire message, including all the XML stuff, the
MasterCook 4.0 and the MasterCook 5.0/6.0 format and then copied them to a
new folder in NoteTab. Saved the folder and opened MasterCook 3.03. No
problems--recipe imported just fine and MasterCook 3.03 ignored all the
XML.
Whatever the import problem from AOL to MasterCook 5.x/6.x, I don't think
it comes from importing directly from an e-mail folder, because AOL's
folders are not plain text. So, for AOL users the only option is to cut
and paste the body of the e-mail into a separate .txt file and then
import. I've only tried this a few times to see if it worked (normally I
use Buster to edit and clean the recipes first).
A: When I download one of the digests, the download manager in AOL allows
me to select save as a text file and what folder to save it in. It opens
automatically in NotePad, and if it's too big, it asks if I want to open
in WordPad. I have no problem importing from there.
A: The trick with AOL is that you can't use the File|Save As function with
your MC-Recipe e-mails, because there are rich text/HTML tags that AOL
sends along that cause MasterCook (all versions) to choke.
So what you have to do is open a new file in MS Notepad or WordPad (go to
Start|Program|Accessories and then chose either--but note that WordPad
allows you to have a bigger file). Then go back to AOL and "Select" the
text of the recipe you want to keep (including the * Exported from
MasterCook * header) by dragging your mouse diagonally over the recipe
while you hold the left button down, then go to Edit|Copy (or use your
right mouse button to chose "copy"). Hop back to your Notepad or WordPad
file and "Paste" (either using Edit|Paste or right mouse button "Paste").
Leave at least one blank line between each recipe you copy and paste.
When you've got a bunch of recipes pasted, save your file (I use the date
for identifying files, so I save as: 17June99.txt. Save it to a folder in
your directory where you can easily find it. You can create a new folder
by going to Start|Windows Explorer. Then choose the drive where you want
to save your recipes and go up to File|New and create a new Folder. I
created a folder for "MC Recipes" right on the D: drive. (These directions
are based on Windows 95--I'm assuming it's similar for Windows 98).
Now open up MasterCook 5.x/6.x and open your Import Cookbook. (It's best
to have a special cookbook just for the temporary import of recipes. Once
you're sure they've imported OK you can move them to a final destination
cookbook and delete the recipe from the temporary import cookbook). Go to
File|Import and you will get a screen with a window showing the contents
of your hard drive on the left. Scroll down until you find your MC Recipe
folder. Then you should see in the box on the right your saved .txt files.
Select the one you wish to import and you should see a list of the recipes
appearing in that file in the middle box. "Select All" and Import.
Voila--all the recipes should appear in your cookbook.
One more tip. There is a neat text-editing program called NoteTab Standard
(or NoteTab Pro), which is available for about $10.00 from
www.notetab.com. This is a wonderful help for the above procedure! One of
the best features is you can open a "New" document and then go to the menu
bar and choose Document|Use As Paste Board. Once you've done this,
everything that you "select" and "copy" in AOL is automatically pasted
into this document (without your having to hop back and forth between
programs). Also if you were to "save" an e-mail that's not a recipe (say
something from the MasterCook chat list) and wanted to read it later, you
would open it in NoteTab and use the Modify|Strip HTML Tags in order to
make it readable.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Safe Importing Guidelines
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Some points to remember:
* You should at least give the eagle eye to any recipe before importing
it.
* Use a special cookbook just for newly-imported recipes. That way, if
something corrupts it, you haven't lost all your treasured collections.
Try searching through this cookbook to make sure it functions just fine.
Also select Refresh File List from the Tools menu to make sure all the
cookbooks are accounted for. If there is a corrupt one, it will have
problems refreshing the screen.
If you do have problems refreshing the screen shut down the program. Then
go into the collection folder and remove the problem child to another
place on your computer. Go into the MC Tools folder and delete the MC
World.mcw file. (This file will be recreated the next time you start up
the program.) Now start back up the program. If it runs fine, then you
know your cookbook is corrupt.
* The "safest" recipes are those that were exported from MasterCook
without using an e-mail program (SMTP). Using an e-mail program (either
Simple MAPI or insert by cut-and-paste) leaves the recipe vulnerable to
mis-wrapped lines, broken tags, among other things. If a recipe does have
mis-wrapped lines, at best you will get a funny-looking import; at worst,
your cookbook will be corrupted.
* If using an e-mail program, compact/compress your mailbox(es). This gets
rid of the bits and pieces that hang around after you delete e-mail or
move it to another folder.
* Save all your e-mail as text files, including the headers (if you want
them). You can do this directly through some e-mail programs, or use
copy/paste into Notepad or other text editor.
* Run the text files through MCTagIt or Buster. They could catch some
problems. Import the tagged or busted file.
S(Formatted By):
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Importing - Scanning Recipes (Part 1 - Acquiring a Scanner and Software to Accompany It)
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Part I - Acquiring a Scanner
Part II - Using the Scanner to Convert Recipes
Part III - Cleaning Up Before Importing
Part 1 - Acquiring a Scanner and Software to Accompany It
This section is for people starting out. You want to be able to easily
take already printed material and have it "magically" appear in
MasterCook.
Well, "Magic" takes a lot of hard work (just ask David Copperfield or
Lance Burton). But we'll try, in this 3 part series, to make "Magic" a
reality!!
The first item of business is to decide on what type of scanner to buy.
Part of that buying decision involves opening up the wallet and counting
how much green is stashed there that your significant other doesn't know
about (ignore the moths, they won't get you a thing!!).
There are tree basic types of scanners, ranging from narrow hand held
devices capable of scanning a single column of magazine or newspaper text,
to giant flat- bed scanners capable of handling the largest documents
imaginable. We probably want to eliminate the devices at both ends of the
scale.
Starting at the low end of the scale (and disappearing rapidly from the
scene) are the hand held devices that you roll across a page by hand and
which scan the entire width of the page. Smaller units, which can span
only a single column of text are no longer economically feasible (even if
they sold for under $5.00). These hand held devices have only one
advantage. If you are trying to scan a thick magazine or a book, they may
be able to do a better job of rendering the text next to the binding.
In the middle are the sheet fed scanners. Often they are combined with a
PC fax machine and copier combination. If you don't already own these
other devices, you can get your scanner FREE by shopping for the right
combo unit. The advantage of these units is that you can pile in a lot of
documents and the scanner will automatically feed, scan, and convert these
documents without human intervention. The drawback is that each document
must be a single sheet. (Do you want to rip up that $1200 rare collector's
edition of the cookbook from the Mayflower in order to avoid typing it in
by hand??)
At the top end are the flat bed scanners. You position the document on a
glass/plastic plate, just like early (and some small modern) copy
machines. The document is then scanned into the computer. Up until
recently, flat bed scanners tended to be VERY expensive. Now they come as
part of multi-function machines just like sheet fed systems. These
scanners may have problems getting an accurate image near the binding of
books and magazines. However, because the source document is stationary,
and the moving mechanism very accurate, these scanners produce the best
overall image, leading to the most accurate OCR output. Prices on
stand-alone units are as low as $99 for a bargain basement unit, $129 for
a reasonably good quality unit, and on up from there. I've seen one for
$7300.00!!!
For our purposes, we also need to consider the software that comes
packaged with the unit. Some will have NO extra software, some will have a
very basic image editor, similar to Paint. Others will include a stripped
down OCR program and maybe a little better image editor. More expensive
models may come bundled with top notch programs of both types. My $399
(special at Office Depot) Xerox Xi70 Work Center (PC fax, copier, color
inkjet printer, and flatbed scanner) came with Pagis Pro scanning and
image index management, fully integrated Textbridge OCR, and MGI
PhotoSuite image manipulation. These are all GOOD programs and would serve
you well.
The trade-off is if you feel that you are going to wind up investing in
more capable software to save you time and hassle (see Part 2 for more
info), then try to save money by getting the BEST hardware with the LEAST
software. But if you want to take care of the whole works in one shot,
then look for Textbridge, Presto, or OmniPage OCR software in the bundle.
Considering the range of units available in all three types, I couldn't
begin to put all the necessary information you need in this write-up. So
I'm going to supply you with some links and turn you loose to do the
detailed research yourself.
PC Magazine:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pclabs/per/scan.html
http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/scanners/intro.htm
PC World Top 10 Scanners:
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,109707,pg,1,00.asp
PC Computing:
http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/stories/all/0,6605,2386482,00.html
Or get wild and crazy (I'm a Steve Martin Kinda guy) and enter the
following on ANY search engine:
Scanners AND review
Then follow the links for another 100 years, at which time it won't matter
any more - EVERYTHING will be digital!!
Happy Scanning, Enjoyable Cooking, and Good Eating to all!!
Bryan C=[8-)}
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Importing - Scanning Recipes (Part 2 - Using the Scanner to Convert Recipes)
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Part I - Acquiring a Scanner
Part II - Using the Scanner to Convert Recipes
Part III - Cleaning Up Before Importing
Part II
Using the Scanner to Convert Recipes.
This section assumes that you have acquired a scanner in some fashion and
now want to use it to automatically "type" recipes from magazines,
newspapers, recipe cards, cookbooks, etc. for you.
This process usually begins with someone asking a question like the
following:
"I got a scanner for Christmas (Birthday, Ground Hog Day, etc.). Now how
do I copy a magazine (newspaper, cookbook, etc.) recipe and have it placed
into a cookbook?"
First of all, a scanner only creates a computer-readable picture of the
material being scanned. The scanner itself cannot tell that there are any
characters on the page. Another program, called an Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) program is required. An entry-level version of such a
program may have been included in the software package that came with your
scanner. This program has the gihugeic task of trying to "read" this
picture and turn it into text characters in an order that resembles the
order in which they occur on the page. It has to be able to recognize
photographs, graphics, and other items that won't get converted to text.
It has to recognize columns so that it can "read" down one column and then
start over again at the top of the next column. In view of the complexity
of the task, it's a wonder that it works at all!! And sometimes we have to
help it along a little.
This commentary, by necessity, must be general in nature. You will need to
frequently reference the manual that came with the equipment. It may be a
manual printed on paper or an on-line manual accessible through the
program.
The first step is to actually scan the document. Most scanners allow some
choice in selecting what type of document is being scanned. You should
choose 300 dpi black line scanning. In some cases this is called "letter"
scanning. You may have to set configuration options to reach this
criteria. Higher dpi levels are desirable only for type faces smaller than
10 points. Most OCR software is optimized for 300 dpi.
In my opinion, the three "biggies" in OCR software are OmniPage, Presto!
and TextBridge. An entry level version of one of these programs may have
been supplied with your scanner. Depending on the results you get, you may
want to upgrade to the "complete" version of one of these packages. Cost
to upgrade is typically around $99 with some of the companies offering
special deals if you will switch from one of their competitors.
Once the initial scan is completed, you are usually offered the
opportunity to intervene manually in the process. One scanning package
allows you to manipulate a rectangle to define which portion of the
initial scan you want to have re-scanned and processed. Another package
defines a number of "zones" on the page, each zone typically comprising a
specific typeface. You can manipulate the boundaries of these zones,
eliminate zones, or renumber the order in which the zones will be placed
in the output.
At this point the actual converted stream of text characters is created.
Some packages have a built-in dictionary and will present obvious errors
along with an enlarged view of the original document so that you can
specify corrections on the spot. Some packages have a "training" mode. If
the program consistently fails to recognize a certain character or
characters correctly, then you can teach it the correct interpretation.
Usually, however, such attempts at "training" only seem to make matters
worse overall. This is because the program gets locked into the training
file and lacks flexibility in consulting other alternative interpretation
files when it encounters difficulties with "untrained" characters.
This stream of output characters can be directed to a Text Editor
(NotePad, WordPad, NoteTab, ClipPad, etc.) or a word processor (MC Word,
Corel WordPerfect, XYWrite, etc.). This may happen automatically based on
configuration information supplied to the program or you may be required
to specify the destination program of file location after each scan. I
have found that best results are obtained by sending the stream to a Text
Editor and then saving the file as Text Only. At a later time I open the
file with a work processor so that I can use Macros, Spell Checker, and
other functions not generally available in a Word Processor. With some OCR
programs, if you send directly to a Word Processor, the column formatting
is retained, creating very short lines of test - not what you want to
import to your cookbook.
Using the Word Processor to cleanup the OCR errors in preparation for
importing to MasterCook is the subject of Part III.
You will get widely varying results depending on the quality of printing
of the original document, what form the original document was in (recipe
card, cookbook, newspaper, magazine, etc.) and what type of scanner you
have. Here is an example of particularly bad results:
APPI£SAUCE~ATMEAL COOKIES WiTh RAISINS
oatmeal cookies aTe da~4 into a ~nilla
Nonstick spray coating
~ cup margarine, softened
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
~ teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
I egg
~ cup unsweetened applesauce
1/'4 CUpS all-purpose flour
1Y4 cups regular or quick-cooking rolled oats
A1 cup raisins
1A cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon milk
'A teaspoon vanilla
Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick coating; set cookie sheet aside.
In a large mixing bowl beat the margarine with an electric mixer on
mediU'n to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the brown sugar, cinnamon, and
baking soda. Beat mixture till thoroughly combined, scraping the sides of
the bowl occasionally. Beat in the egg and applesauce. Beat in as much of
the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in any remaining flour with a
wooden spoon. Stir in the oats and raisins. Drop dough by rounded
tea-Spoons 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheet.
Bake in a 3750 oven for 8 to 10 minutes or till edges are light brown.
Remove cookies from cookie sheet. Cool on a wire rack.
F~r glaze, stir together powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. Dip cooled
cookies into glaze. Let dry on wire rack. Makes about 30.
Per Cook~
CaJo'ie~ 88
Total Fat~ g
&itumLedfat <ig
cboiesterol 7mg
Sodium~35 mg
ccirtohyd~Ie lsg
Fiber (ig
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Now, no matter how bad this looks, if you count the number of actual
errors, it is still a rather small percentage, about 8-10%. If you are as
bad a typist as I, then this may give you a better result than typing the
whole recipe by hand. As you can see by this example the cleanup process
can be significant (especially from newspapers). Once the recipe is
cleaned up and ready, it must be saved as an ASCII DOS Text file (AKA
plain text).
I know this sounds like a complicated process (and it can be). But once
you do a few, it becomes much easier. I personally scan in preference to
retyping every time. And remember that the above bad example is about as
bad as it gets.
There are several things that you can do to help your OCR software do a
better job. You never notice how faint some magazine printing can get, but
your scanner sure sees the difference. If you have trouble only with a few
recipes from a given magazine, try photocopying them, enlarging them as
much as possible and getting the best contrast possible. If you have
trouble with an entire publication, then it is usually the typeface used.
In that case, try to find someone else with a different OCR program and
try converting with that. Almost ALL newspapers need to be photocopied
before trying to convert. At even then it's'a crap shoot; newspaper print
quality is not meant to be high grade!! Documents printed by high quality
printing processes are most suitable for OCR. This includes laser
printers, printing presses, and books. Pages printed on inkjet printers as
well as newspaper articles will give good results, but there will be more
mistakes than with laser printed originals. Items printed on dot matrix
printers and FAX machines do not produce good results with OCR software.
Trying to scan bound materials on a flatbed scanner can cause problems at
the bound edge of pages. See section I on advantages and disadvantages of
different types of scanners.
Many thanks to all those who contributed, knowingly or unknowingly, to
this section, including, but limited to Jim Bryant and Brenda Adams.
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Part I - Acquiring a Scanner
Part II - Using the Scanner to Convert Recipes
Part III - Cleaning Up Before Importing
Part III - Cleaning Up Before Importing
This section deals with the unique problems created by OCR scanning and
addresses some methods to reduce the drudgery.
OK, so by now you have managed to figure out your scanner hardware and
software and have actually produced a text document. But it doesn't take
much looking to figure out that we aren't nearly out of the woods, yet!!
Depending on the quality of the document scanned and the "goodness" of
your OCR software, your results are going to range from "pretty darn good"
to "what in the heck IS this trash"!! If it's really bad, either give up
and enter it by hand, or go back to the scanner, adjust settings, try to
improve the document quality, etc. If it's really good, you may be only a
few keystrokes away from perfection.
But WATCH OUT!! You have to be very careful and inspect those fractions
that show up. You will usually get the single character version of the
fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and 3/4. And a lot of the time they will be
WRONG. So double-check those carefully.
As far as rearranging the data for MasterCook format, that is another
whole subject, fully addressed is several other places. What we are
looking at here is the steps that need to be taken before the file is
ready to be finalized into MasterCook format.
The first problem is those pesky fractions. MasterCook doesn't recognize
the single character version that we have in many places in our scanned
recipes. So these have to be converted to the 3 character version. And the
average input page is going to have a fair number of "typos" created by
the scanning process (in addition to any that made it past the proofreader
in the initial publication process). There are several approaches that we
might take to handle these problems, depending on how much material we are
scanning and trying to import.
One approach is to use a text editing program or a word processing program
that will handle text only documents without screwing them up. We can now
use the Find and Replace functionality of this program to locate the
fractions and automatically change them to the correct form. And very
quickly you are going to get tired of doing the same 4 Find and Replace
steps in every document put out by the scanner. That's when you learn how
to record or input a macro which then allows you to do these 4 steps with
1 special keystroke (typically). And as you go along, you will find
yourself adding to this macro or creating others to reduce very repetitive
operations.
Your Text Editor or Word Processor should have a spelling checker. And the
spelling checker can be "taught" to recognize and correct errors
introduced by the OCR process. The only problem is that these programs are
a lot dumber than you might imagine. You would think that once you had
taught it that "sguar" is really "sugar" it could remember that and make
the same correction automatically for every new document created. And it
DOES with most programs but ONLY if you are typing the words in from the
keyboard. This function is called AutoCorrect or AutoReplace in most
programs. So each time you go to process a new document, you have to again
"teach" it that "sguar" is really "sugar" all over again and then it
behaves nicely for the rest of the checking, IF you specify Change All (or
Replace All, depending on the program).
One way to eliminate some of this work is to make very large documents out
of a bunch of small ones (kind of like a digest). As you finish scanning
each document and have it in text only format, just cut out all the
information from the new document and paste it onto the end of the
preceding document(s). You are going to have to do this, at least to some
degree, anyway since recipes will not always end at the end of a page, but
continue onward to the next page. Now you only have to teach it the
correct spelling of a word once at the beginning of the large document and
not multiple times at the beginning of a bunch of the single pages.
Now once you have this process down pat and have proceeded onward to
getting everything where it belongs so MasterCook can import it, you are
probably going to start grabbing everything ever printed and running it
through your scanner (it's addicting - I know: I'm a recovering
"scanner"). And you are going to get bogged down in a lot of necessary,
repetitive detail. And it's going to get boring, and tedious. And the fun
is going to diminish or go away entirely. But wait!!! There's still hope!!
Now you need to find out about some truly Magic Programs.
The first bit of Magic is a freeware/shareware program called NoteTab.
It's a great Text Editor with a lot of very nice features. And to get all
the features I highly recommend getting the $9.95 version called NoteTab
Standard. In the meantime you can download the free version, NoteTab
Light, and start getting ready for some serious (and fun) business.
NoteTab has a programming language that can be learned very easily for
what we are going to do with it. We are going to create a true
"AutoCorrect" spell checker. Once we teach NoteTab the correct version of
a misspelled word, it will AUTOMATICALLY correct that word in every new
document we produce. And it can help us take care of some of the
formatting chores also. And make our recipes look just the way we want
them. One nice(??) thing about the errors that scanners make is that they
are pretty consistent, at least within a given publication. In some
typefaces the OCR software may consistently confuse the letter "n" and the
letter pair "ri". And this may go both ways. As we use our normal spell
checker, we note which words are encountered most often and then add these
to our "automatic" checker in NoteTab.
Now when we finish scanning a document, we load it in NoteTab and run our
version of "AutoCorrect", and then use NoteTab's Spell Checker (not
available in NoteTab Light) to find some more words that we may need to
add to our "AutoCorrect" list. The more documents we process, the fewer
errors for the regular Spell Checker to find. So pretty soon we're flying
again!! And having a ball!! And our significant other can't drag us away
from the scanner and threatens to have us committed.
Well, actually, before we get to that point, we hit another stumbling
block. There still is a lot of work to be done so that when MasterCook
imports the recipe, it is all nice and clean and all the information is
where we want it, just the way we want it. (I'm really anal about
everything being "just so" in my recipes)!! Again, NoteTab to the rescue
along with another Magic Program called MC-TagIt. Unfortunately, MC-TagIt
doesn't work for anything prior to MasterCook 5 (fortunately there's a
program called MC Buster that does much the same thing for MasterCook 4
and prior).
Now, in my recipes, I consider "1 cup onion, chopped" to be a totally
different quantity than "1 cup chopped onion". (Measure a cup of whole
onions, take them out, chop them up, and then see if you have 1 cup). This
can be particularly true when you take something like a tablespoon of
parsley. There is a tremendous difference between a tablespoon of parsley
and a tablespoon of chopped parsley. And some of the ingredients in the
Ingredient List in MasterCook reflect this difference. Depending on
exactly how you state the ingredient name, the nutritional analysis may
vary significantly. Check boneless pork, then check pork ribs. Now what
happens if you enter pork ribs, boneless?? You are going to be way off.
My trick to take care of these problems is to treat these instances as
"spelling errors". In my "AutoCorrect" function in NoteTab I have taught
it to replace "pork ribs, boneless" with "boneless pork ribs". And then in
MasterCook I have copied the information from "boneless pork" into a new
ingredient named "boneless pork ribs". (You COULD merely create a synonym
for boneless pork called boneless pork ribs, but then on your shopping
list it would just say "boneless pork" and you might not remember that you
needed to get the boneless ribs).
There are also two freeware libraries, designed specifically for use with
MasterCook recipes, available for NoteTab. These can help tremendously in
getting past the drudgery of getting everything ready to import by
automating many of these steps and reducing others to just a
keystroke/mouse click or two.
So now you know what you need to do, all you need is the information on
where to get this good stuff. So HERE it is:
NoteTab Light and NoteTab Standard:
http://www.notetab.com/
MC-Tagit for MasterCook 5.x/6.x courtesy of Gail Shermeyer:
http://mctagit.com/
NoteTab Clip Libraries for MasterCook 5 courtesy of Pat Hanneman of
KitPatH:
http://home.earthlink.net/~kitpath/
MC Buster courtesy of Glen Hosey
http://thehoseys.com/
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Importing - The Keyword Format Loads More Fields
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Another way to set up recipes in a text file is the keyword format. It
lets you import 8 parts of a recipe and works in versions 3, 4, 5 and 6.
NAME:
SERVES:
SOURCE:
COURSES:
ELAPSED TIME:
COMMENTS:
INGREDIENTS:
DIRECTIONS:
These keywords correspond to MasterCook's Title, Number of Servings,
Author, Categories, Preparation Time, Notes, Ingredients and Directions.
In the example, highlight all of the recipe starting with NAME: Thai
Chicken Thighs and ending with Crescent Books (1994: New York)
Copy and paste that selection into MasterCook 5.0 Import Assistant (IA) .
Use [Auto-Fill] to import all the text into the proper fields.
Like the 5@ method, you can import recipes with this format from a text
file by using Import.
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NAME: Thai Chicken Thighs
SERVES: 6
SOURCE: Grilling Step by Step
COURSES: Appetizers, Poultry
ELAPSED TIME: 20
COMMENTS: Prep 20 min; marinate 1 hr; cook 20 mins
INGREDIENTS:
2 1/2 pounds skinless boneless chicken thighs
6 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
3 cilantro, coarsely chopped
1/4 teaspoon salt
PREPARE AND HEAT barbecue.
1. Trim the chicken thighs of excess fat and tendons.
2. Place garlic, peppercorns, cilantro and salt in food processor bowl.
Process 2030 seconds or until the mixture forms a smooth paste. (This can
also be done using a mortar and pestle.)
3. Place chicken in shallow nonmetal dish. Spread garlic mixture over
chicken. Stand chicken at room temperature 1 hour.
4. Barbecue chicken on hot, greased grill or griddle 510 minutes each
side, turning once. Serve with a Chili Garlic Dip.
Storage: Chicken can be marinated, in refrigerator, 1 day in advance. Dip
can be made 3 days in advance.
Ref: Step-By-Step Grilling Cookbook, by Susan Tomnay (Editor) Crescent
Books (1994: New York).
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Importing - Using Masterlist with File Import
Recipe By :
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I was pulling together my collection of recipes by one author. For a
change, I wanted to import directly into the book that I started.
So I opened the MASTERLIST. That put its window on the taskbar. Then I
opened the FILE IMPORT window -- which took over the full screen. I opened
the file I wanted to import then clicked the [Masterlist] task.
I don't think this would work well for books with gazillions of recipes
but it works fine for this purpose.
Usually, I import into "My Imports" book. Edit there. Then drag and drop
recipe(s) from the browser view to a book on the masterlist.
- ML/file import comparison of titles. -
This method of comparing titles to be imported with titles that exist
would work in small books. Or in this example, it works mostly because the
recipes are all from the same author: "Paulette Mitchell"
Chances are that two recipes with the same title are duplicates. I would
still compare the two recipes. See which one is better formatted. Which
has more information. Make sure they are from the same book. etc.
When comparing recipes - the "edit view" of the recipe is in one column so
it would resize to half the screen. (The display view is spread out too
much to size easily.)
It might be easier to compare the recipe displayed in MC with the recipe
in the text file, because the text file's window would be resize-able. and
you could view both (text and MC) at the same time.
But this won't work well for large collections of mixed author/source
recipes that might have the same titles.
Personally, I don't mind dups. In fact I create dups on purpose sometimes!
For example, I like to maintain cookbooks of all the recipes sent to one
of the lists. I know what's in their archive. I keep the recipes that I
sent to that list in their own source book.
When importing new recipes into a list-cookbook, I let MC number the dups
so that I can eye ball them and delete/rename them. I've found no way to
catch the same recipes with different names.
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Importing - With or Without Categories
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Importing
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: How can I import recipes without their categories?
A: When you import recipes into MasterCook 5.x/6.x, there is a place near
the left middle edge of the Import window where you can put a checkmark
which will Include Categories when you import recipes. Remove the
checkmark from this box to exclude the categories when importing.
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Importing - Yahoogroups Recipes
Recipe By :
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Categories : Importing
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You will have better results importing the recipes from yahoogroups e-mail
lists <http://groups.yahoo.com/> if you subscribe to these lists in the
plain text format and NOT HTML. Each e-mail list has its own settings.
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0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
ottermum
04-16-2005, 01:10 PM
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Ingredient List - Bold Ingredients
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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QUESTION: I understand that the bolded entries in the Ingredient List mean
you can use them as a "whole" amount. In most cases, the bold ingredient
has a 1 in either the serving size or the volume and that makes sense to
me. However, there are some (for example apples, golden delicious and
olives, black) where they don't appear to be setup as a whole yet they
still show in the list as bolded. For example, apples, golden delicious
have 100 grams (serving size), 100 grams (weight), & 1 cup (volume). Why
is that a bolded ingredient?
ANSWER: I just noticed when I create a new ingredient in version 4, when I
"convert" the USER.ING file to version 7, the new ingredient is listed in
the v7 Ingredient List as bold. This is because there is something in the
serving size fields in the v7 Ingredient List.
Version 4 does NOT let you specify "whole" items separately from "volume"
like you can in version 7. For example, in version 7 there are three
fields to fill in: SERVING SIZE, IS EQUAL TO WEIGHT, and OR EQUALS VOLUME.
In version 4 there are only two: WEIGHT and VOLUME EQUIV.
So, to fix your ingredients so they are no longer bold in version 7,
delete the stuff from the SERVING SIZE field in version 7 and SAVE. This
will cause the ingredient to no longer be bold.
For my testing, in version 4 I created a new "100% Bran® cereal" giving it
a new name. (Note this item is NOT in bold in version 4.) I then converted
my USER.ING file into v7. When looking at that new ingredient in v7, it is
bold. I deleted all the stuff from the SERVING SIZE field (duplicate of
what appears in the OR EQUALS VOLUME field) and SAVED. It no longer is
bold.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Ingredient List - Calories From Fat
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q. I gathered a BUNCH of Nutrition Facts labels, prices, store locations
etc and sat down for a marathon data entry session. I got as far as the
Calories from Fat (CFF) listing before I hit a snag. I can not remove the
0.00. I have tried putting in the actual calories and I tried putting in
the percentage, the 0.00 remains.
I finished filling all of the remaining info in the hopes that the program
would automatically fill in the elusive Calories from Fat column. No luck.
A. Did you press the [SAVE] button? MasterCook will calculate both
calories from fat and the percent of calories from fat. It need two pieces
of information to do that: 1) Total calories and 2) Grams of Total Fat.
Enter the ingredient, SAVE the entry, and you should notice MasterCook has
filled in those fields.
In ValuSoft's version 6.2 program, the CFF field no longer appears to be
editable.
IMPORTANT NOTES! Enter as much info as possible (i.e. values for carbs,
fiber, etc.) because the more info you enter, the more accurate the
program will be with your "new" ingredient. The program uses ALL of these
values to calculate the nutrition properly.
You can "index" your new ingredients as well. See the More Info tab inside
the Ingredient List window. This is what causes the program to track how
ingredients are linked together in a hierarchy system. For example, if you
perform an advance search to search by ingredient, you can have the
program find all "beef" recipes, which include beef steaks, beef roasts,
ground beef, etc. The reason it is able to do this is because ground beef
is INDEXED AS "beef" in the Ingredient List. Scan other ingredients in the
Ing. List to learn how to "index" your new ingredient.
Furthermore, this is a reason to never delete ingredients just because you
don't think you'll use them or they look odd (values all set to zero),
like the ingredient "meat" in the Ing. List. The ingredient is in there
for a reason.
And, most importantly, if you do edit the ingredient list keep the ING
file backed up for safe keeping of your labor!
Any changes you make to the Ingredient List within the program are
actually stored inside the MC Ingredients.ing file which is inside the MC
TOOLS folder (inside the MasterCook folder) on your computer. I've seen
people come to the MasterCook message boards wondering why their recipes
don't work properly. It was found that the ING file became corrupt (caused
by a virus, computer crash, or whatever) and reduced WAY down in size to
around 35 KB. Their ING file was no longer good. Normally the ING file is
around 3.5 MB. It is also important that this file never be set to
read-only (a setting which CD-RW drives normally set during backup to
disk) or it will cause problems for the program. Any time you have a
corrupt ING file, you can easily replace it with the one on the disk or
one you have backed up.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Ingredient List - Copying Ingredients
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I want to add a new ingredient to the ingredient list that is simply a
variation on an existing one. There's no copy button.
A: To enter a new ingredient that is a variation on an existing one, go to
Tools - Ingredient List to open the box to edit ingredients. Using your
example, type in "salt and pepper", then click on the More Info tab (next
to Exchanges). Click on the New button opposite Synonyms and enter "salt
and freshly ground pepper". Click Save and Done. There is now a new
ingredient - salt and freshly ground pepper - that is a copy of salt and
pepper.
It doesn't show up until you exit the edit ingredients list. Also, if you
delete the main ingredient that you created the synonym from, it will
delete both of them.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Ingredient List - Creating New Ingredients
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I entered Kikkoman Lite Soy Sauce, at 1 TBSP (15 ml) serving size. Per
serving: 10 Cal, 0 Fat, 575 mg Sodium, 1 g Carb, 1 g Protein. The
nutritional analysis for 1 cup of the above ingredient gives me the
following:
157725 Calories, 90691 sodium, 15772 carbs and protein.
In the Ingredient List I have it marked for 'fluid'. I tried both ways not
much difference.
I don't understand why the numbers are so high. Perhaps I don't understand
the serving size, equal to volume or weight section of the nutritional
analysis. I entered for soy sauce, serving size 1 tablespoon and weight 15
ml.
Now, I realize that MC has a version for lite soy sauce but the ingredient
listing does not match the soy sauce I use. I am afraid to use it in my
recipes because for 1 cup of MC soy sauce (lite) gives me 9599 mg sodium.
Is this right?
A: You must enter information in at least one of the two middle fields:
Is equal to Weight
Or equals Volume
It is from those two fields that MC draws the information for its
calculations.
When I entered the new ingredient data as you gave it, but also put "1
tablespoon" in the field for "Or equals Volume," the results for one cup
of soy sauce was 9200 mg sodium.
Compare the amounts for 1 cup each of these ingredients:
* "soy sauce" (regular ingredient) 16, 459 mg Sodium
* "low sodium soy sauce" (regular ingredient) 9, 599 mg Sodium
* "Kikkoman Lite Soy Sauce" (your ingredient) 9,200 mg Sodium
* "salt" 102, 321 mg Sodium
Those two boxes "Is equal to weight" and "Or equals volume" are ways of
describing the size of the sample that contains the nutrients listed in
the chart below. That's the reason MC must have at least one of them
filled in. If you can -- if you can tell from the label -- you will want
to fill both of them in. That way, you can use either a weight measure (1
pound sugar) or a volume measure (2 cups sugar) in your recipe and MC will
have the basis to make a more accurate calculation. Otherwise, MC will
have to make estimations to come up with the data. MC will alert you that
it's doing this, though.
Q: When adding a new ingredient like a can of soup, do you enter the
nutritional value for the whole can or per serving size. Or, does it not
matter because when used in a recipe it calculates according to how much
you use?
A: I would look in the ingredient list for other soups and see how they
are entered. Then add a soup modeled on how they are entered.
The rules of thumb that I personally use are:
1) find a soup that is already in the database that is nearly identical
and link my ingredient to it.
2) add the ingredients per serving -- that's easiest since that is the way
the info is presented to us on the product label.
3) multiply -- if I only use the product by the can, then sure !-) --
enter it that way, doing the math. But beware. Manufacturers do change the
can sizes.
Q: I own MasterCook Deluxe 4.0 and now MasterCook Light 6.0. (I love both
- very different interfaces though!) I am adding in my recipes and several
of my recipes require cream of chicken or broccoli (or other flavors)
condensed soup. In 6.0 there is an ingredient, Cream of Chicken Soup
condensed. But I am using 99% fat free so I need to add that as a new
ingredient. I filled out the form but am confused at the serving size
field, the "is equal to weight" field, followed by "or equals volume". I
checked out how the default settings for other condensed soups but nothing
is in the serving size field, the grams of the weight of the soup don't
match my soups (i.e. cream of mushroom is 244 grams while my soups are all
305 grams). I need to be exact because of Weight watcher points-(counting
nutritional values to create a point.)
I put in for the serving size, 1 can (I would add one or two cans for a
recipe), 305 grams for "equal to weight" and or equals volume of 1 1/4
cups (1 can = 2.5 half cup servings the label states). I then took the
calories, fat content and other values and multiplied them for a total
that the can would contain. (1 serving = 70 calories; then 2.5 servings,
or 1 can would be 175 calories) Am I doing this right? I am using the
contents right from the can and not adding water or milk... The recipe
with all ingredients will be divided into serving size which then would
give me an accurate nutritional value - Right?
If I have got this all wrong, would you give me the specifics of the
nutritional values (everyone has Campbell's soup -- especially the
condensed! I will be able to see how you did it.
A: Did you consider the MC 6 ingredient: "condensed reduced fat cream of
mushroom soup"? That should serve as a good guide, if not a complete fit.
Q: I think the question is: In creating a recipe, if the ingredient is
used as a whole instead of a serving size (i.e. can vs. 1/2 cup), do we
use the total nutritional value of the whole can?
A: I'm sitting with a can of Campbell's 98% Fat Free Cream of Chicken
Soup. The label info says:
Serving Size: 1/2 cup
Servings about 2.5
Calories 80
Total fat: 3 g
etc.
If it were me, rather than multiply each of the values by 2.5 in order to
get the values for a whole can, I would enter the info for the 1/2 cup
label serving size.
In the MC field for "serving size," I would enter 1/2 cup.
For the "is equal to weight" I would enter 122 grams (this is the total
package weight in grams -- 305 -- divided by the servings per package --
2.5). Or you could do this in ounces (10 3/4 oz. divided by 2.5 = 4.3
ounces).
For the "or equals volume", I would enter 1/2 cup.
In my recipe, to use a whole can, I would specify:
[Amount] 1 [Unit] 10 3/4-oz can [Ingredient] Campbell's 98% Fat Free Cream
of Chicken Soup
You could also do it the way you suggested -- entering the values for a
whole can -- by multiplying the values on the package by the appropriate
number.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Ingredient List - Entering Costs Under the More Info Tab
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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If you flip thru the ingredients in the list (ctrl+e), you'll see that
everything with food value must be listed first by metric weight. Then we
have a choice.
If the ingredient can be measured by cups or tablespoons etc., then we
list its equivalent volume. If the ingredient is a discrete thing that we
buy by the each or whole, like a tortilla or sausage link or apple, etc --
then the ingredient gets described by the serving size.
When costing the ingredient there are three "info boxes" or variables to
describe it: [Cost] per [amount] [unit]
Swiss cheese: [3.99] per [1] [pound]
carrots: [0.19] per [1] [pound]
chocolate chips: [2.95] per [12] [ounces]
The cost does not have to be entered for the serving size on the nutrition
facts tab. We can enter cost as we would buy the item in the grocery
store. MasterCook will calculate from that.
Some people say it will cost me $4.00 even if I only use a part of it.
MasterCook handles that kind of cost thru the shopping list, not thru the
cost per serving.
Also, MasterCook will figure the unit cost per serving. If you want to
know how much the cake costs, enter "1" in the "serving" field of the
recipe. MasterCook 5.x/6.x does not assume "1" serving if serving is left
blank. Yield does not enter into it.
NOTE: On the nutrition facts tab of the ingredient list, serving size is
relative to the data entry, i.e. the ingredient list. It does not reflect
any USDA recommended serving per 2000 calorie per day diet.
The role of the Yields and Equivalencies table. If an ingredient is in the
Yields and Equivalencies tables, then we can list the ingredient's metric
weight, the 1 serving size and its yield chopped, e.g.: onion, 1 medium
about 121 grams, 2/3 cup volume.
Q: I need help with the cost analysis portion of MasterCook. I have put in
my correct prices into the ingredients lists; however, when I perform the
analysis I do not get a true cost. I don't know if it is leaving something
out or adding something incorrectly. Is there a way to see the ingredient
by ingredient cost analysis of the particular recipe that you are costing
out. Just giving me a cost per serving does not help me solve my dilemma.
Also what about the cost analysis on embedded recipes. Mine does not seem
to take those into account.
A: First, let me reassure you that MasterCook does include embedded
recipes when performing a cost analysis.
One thing that you might be noticing is that MasterCook has to do some
rounding when the cost is given by weight (say, $4.00 per pound) but the
amount in the recipe is given in volume (say 1/2 cup). You will get a
fairly accurate cost analysis in this instance, but it will not be as
precise as if the recipe amount was given in weight as well.
You can watch this happening if you make up a few simple recipes using
limited ingredients, and then give those ingredients imaginary costs. I
gave butter a cost of $4.00 per pound and sugar a cost of $2.00 per pound
(2 cups sugar or butter is approximately 1 pound). Then I made up a recipe
using 1 pound butter and 1 pound sugar to serve 1 person. The cost
analysis of that recipe was $6.00, which is correct. But when I changed
the amount of butter in the recipe from 1 pound to 2 cups, the cost
analysis showed $5.99 per serving -- because MasterCook did not have
information on the cost of a cup of butter. Now try embedding a recipe
that uses just butter and sugar as ingredients -- you can see that
MasterCook is using the embedded recipe for the cost.
One other thing you might want to check is whether you have yield
information on the recipes you are embedding. For example, if your main
recipe (the one you are costing) calls for 1 cup béchamel, but your
embedded recipe for béchamel does not show that the recipe yields 4 cups,
you will not get correct results.
Q: When I enter a recipe and use an ingredient that is not in the
ingredient list the cost analysis is not being performed correctly.
For example I have a recipe for BBQ chicken that uses 10 pound of BBQ
chicken. I enter the recipe then go to the ingredient list and add BBQ
chicken at 2.00 per pound. When the cost analysis is being performed it
does not take 10 pounds into account but is only using the cost for one
pound. If I enter a new recipe and use an ingredient that is already in
the ingredient list and enter it's cost the cost analysis is performed
correctly.
A: If you create a new ingredient and the *only* the information you enter
is cost, then MasterCook will not correctly calculate cost per serving or
total cost.
MasterCook is ingredient based and needs to have some basis for
calculating portions of that ingredient. It needs to be sized. It need
something in either of the two middle fields of the "Nutrition Facts" tab:
"Is equal to Weight" or "Or equals volume." But you don't seem to have to
enter any of the detailed nutritional information if all you want to do is
calculate cost.
If most of your recipes call for weights of BBQ chicken, like pounds or
ounces, then I would enter information in the field "Is equal to Weight",
and give the cost by weight as well. If most of your recipes call for a
volume of BBQ chicken, I would fill in the field for "Or equals volume"
and give the cost by volume. (MasterCook will figure the cost no matter
which of the fields is filled in, but has to do some estimating if you
fill in weight and the recipe calls for volume, or vice versa.)
What numbers to fill in? You may need to experiment a bit. But I surmise
that the weight or volume of a single serving (what you would ordinarily
allocate per person) would be the most useful for your purpose. You can
test it by using one of your recipes (or simple test recipes you make up
with only a few ingredients) where BBQ chicken is the only "unknown" --
all the other ingredients have complete nutritional information and you
have added cost for them. Then calculate cost without using BBQ chicken as
an ingredient, and then using various combinations of information for the
BBQ chicken. You could also try filling in both fields on the nutrition
tab, but you will only be able to enter the cost one way (weight or
volume).
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Ingredient List - Finding the Correct Ingredient Name
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Sometimes it's hard to think of the way an ingredient we're looking for
might be worded. For example, "minced fresh ginger" is not in the
Ingredient List, but "fresh minced ginger" is. "Shredded sweetened
coconut" is not in the Ingredient List, but "sweetened coconut flakes" is.
So how do we find every way "ginger" or "coconut" might be listed?
The enclosure below is a text file of all the ingredient names as they
appear in the MC 5/6 Ingredient List (but note that the plural form of the
name is not listed here). You can open it in a word processor like Word
and use Word's Find feature to locate all the ways your ingredient might
be phrased. Then check out likely possibilities in MC's Ingredient List to
see which is the one you're looking for (raw, ground, fresh, canned,
etc.).
Copy the link below and paste it into your web browser:
http://mc6help.tripod.com/MCIngTxt.txt
After it finishes loading in your web browser, copy/paste the text into
your word processor, and save.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Ingredient List - Sugar Values Missing
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: How come MasterCook doesn't include sugar as part of the nutritional
analysis?
A: MasterCook gets its Ingredient List values from the USDA database
<http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl>. The USDA doesn't
provide these values.
In 1999, the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 13 --
included data on total sugars for some but not all foods. Whether more
foods will be included later depends on whether or not the USDA goes to a
ruling. At present they are hearing evidence pro and con for implementing
this.
It's the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) that petitioned
for the labeling: they want "added sugars" to be required on certain
product labels. Notice the words "certain product labels" -- especially
cereals and soda pop.
A CSPI survey concluded that soft drinks contribute one-third of the added
sugars in the U.S. diet, and fruit "drinks" add another 10 percent. Intake
of sugar continues to rise.
At this time compliance is voluntary. I am noticing more labels telling me
"no sugar added"
We have to wait. In the meantime, ask your doctor or nutritionist how
counting carbs and using the glycemic index will help you. Also, the ADA
has added "sugar" back to it's exchange list. Perhaps you could track down
a copy.
Search the net for "added sugars" and you will find lots plus these two:
http://www.nsda.org/About/dietguidecomments.html
http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/062600a.txt
Sugars are carbohydrates. The nutritional value of the sugar is included
in the carbohydrate value, which you do enter into MasterCook's Ingredient
List. The designation "added sugar" on a label is extra,
non-governmental-required information (individual manufacturers responding
to public requests).
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Ingredient List - Upgrading the USER.ING File
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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UPGRADE versions 2 AND 3 TO 4:
In order to get your unique ingredients into MasterCook 4.0, you would
just want to copy and paste the USER.ING file from the 3.0 directory
(c:\sierra\mstrcook) or 2.0 directory into the 4.0 directory
(c:\sierra\mcook4, c:\sierra\cklt4, etc). These would be the ingredients
you have entered into 2.0/3.0 from the ground up, not ingredients already
in the ingredients list which were edited (price, store location added,
etc). When you do this and reopen MCook 4, you will receive a message that
says:
"Warning. The USER.ING Ingredient file is from an older version of
MasterCook. MasterCook will update it to the new format and save the old
file with the name USER_ING.OLD."
After clicking OK, the file will be updated and you will be able to access
your 2.0/3.0 ingredients through the MCook 4 ingredients list.
Only the user.ing file can be updated, not the mstrcook.ing file.
UPGRADE VERSIONS 4 TO 6:
VERSION 5.X
Version 5.0 doesn't upgrade the ING file from previous versions. However,
you can send your USER.ING file to a version 6.x user. Maybe they would be
willing to convert it for you. You could try posting a message on the
message board here: http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.ee741bb
SierraHome's VERSION 6.0:
Version 6.0 will upgrade the version 4 ING file during the installation.
It will also update the version 5 ING file if you install over the top of
it. Make sure you back up your ING files before installing in case
something goes wrong.
Here are some things to keep in mind during the installation to upgrade
your ING files with version 6.0:
1. Default Install: Allow (or direct) MasterCook 6 to install itself in
your MasterCook 5 folder. It will update your version 5 to version 6.
During the installation it will merge your v4 user.ing file and v5 MC
Ingredients.ing file. If it finds duplicate ingredients you will be
prompted about what to do. At the prompt select "Yes" *OR* "Yes to All"
and it will keep your existing ingredient values. If you select "No," the
ingredient list from the v6 CD will install.
Note that your shortcuts will still read as they did for the version 5
program, but the version 6 program will open when you click on them. If
you want to change the wording of the shortcut, right click the shortcut
with your mouse and choose Rename from the menu. Press the right arrow key
one time so the current wording will stay visible, then edit the name.
Press Enter to accept the new name.
2. Version 6 Only Install: Uninstall MasterCook 5 using either the
Uninstall utility from the Start>Programs>Sierra menu or the Add/Remove
Programs from Start>Settings>Control Panel. Manually delete the v5
directory from Windows Explorer, taking care that your files are backed up
elsewhere, and delete any shortcuts from Start>Programs or your Desktop.
Reboot your computer to reset system resources and update Windows. Disable
your virus scanner and close all running programs (see the Basic Install
Guidelines above) and install version 6. This will NOT merge your v5 ING
file since it can only do this during an installation over the top of v5.
If you want to use this option and still want to merge your v5 ingredients
file into v6, use Windows Explorer to create a folder named MasterCook 6,
and create a subfolder called Mc Tools within it. Place your v5 ING file
inside of the Mc Tools folder you created, then direct the installation to
the new MasterCook 6 directory you created. This will merge your v5 MC
Ingredients.ing file with the MC Ingredients.ing file on the v6 CD. During
the installation, you will be prompted about what to do if it finds
duplicate ingredients. At the prompt select "Yes" *OR* "Yes to All" and it
will keep your existing ingredient values. If you select "No," the
ingredient list from the v6 CD will install.
3. Keep Version 5 on Your Computer: You can keep version 5 and version 6
on your computer at the same time, but you CANNOT have them open at the
same time. To do this, use Windows Explorer to create a folder named
MasterCook 6. If you want to use your v5 MC Ingredients.ing file, create a
subfolder called Mc Tools within the new MasterCook 6 folder. Place a COPY
of your v5 ING file inside the Mc Tools folder you created, and then
direct the installation to the new MasterCook 6 folder. (Be sure to follow
the Basic Install Guidelines above and turn off your antivirus, and
running programs.) This will merge your v5 MC Ingredients.ing file with
the MC Ingredients.ing file on the v6 CD. During the installation, you
will be prompted about what to do if it finds duplicate ingredients. At
the prompt select "Yes" *OR* "Yes to All" and it will keep your existing
ingredient values. If you select "No," the ingredient list from the v6 CD
will install.
IMPORTANT NOTE: IF you decide to keep both version 5 and 6 on your
computer, you *cannot* have them open at the same time. They will "share"
cookbook files. For example, if you open an existing v5 cookbook with v6,
it will create a "shortcut" to that cookbook on the v6 Cookbook Browser
(opening a v4 cookbook would cause v5 or v6 to make its own copy), so
don't delete that cookbook unless you want it to disappear from both
versions.
ValuSoft's VERSION 6.2:
Please see this "Installation - Version 6.2 (ValuSoft) Merging ALL
SierraHome/ValuSoft Versions 5.x/6.x Products" title inside this cookbook.
ValuSoft's VERSION 7.0:
Please see this "Installation - Version 7.0 (ValuSoft) Merging Ingredient
Lists and Tips" title inside this cookbook.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Ingredient List - Use Caution When Editing Ingredient List
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Ingredient List
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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In MasterCook 5.x/6.x we are able to search on ingredients and MasterCook
is aware of its ingredient hierarchy. So, if you wanted to search for
recipes that do not contain dairy, you could choose Ingredients to Avoid:
dairy. Now it will avoid all recipes that have cheese, milk, yogurt, etc.
in the ingredient section.
For this reason, you do not want to delete "dairy" from the Ingredient
List. It points (links) to the dairy products like cheese, milk, etc. You
will find several of these types of ingredients with no nutritional values
listed. DON'T delete them because they are empty, since they are entered
for a reason. Use the More Info tab in the Ingredient List window to see
what the ingredient is Indexed As.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Installation - Backing Up Your Files
Recipe By :
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BACK UP YOUR FILES:
What do we mean by back up? Copy your files from your hard drive to
another location. If you can, it is better to copy them to a floppy disk
or other media you can remove from your computer (zip disk, super disk,
CD-RW, etc.). If your group of files is too large to fit on one diskette,
you can copy one or two cookbooks on one diskette, then go to the next
set. Still too big? Divide a large cookbook into two or more cookbooks or
use file compression, like WinZip.
By backing up to removable media like floppies, your cookbooks will
survive even a hard drive crash. If you would rather not do this, you can
move them to another folder on your hard drive, preferably a folder you
have created for just this purpose.
For even more security, make a second set of backup disks, too. First back
up to set one, and the next time, back up to set two. That way, your files
will not be totally inaccessible if there is a glitch in the copy process
or if your diskette goes bad on you.
IF you are backing up to uninstall/reinstall because of a problem with a
particular personal cookbook or other file you have customized, you should
back it up, too, but do *not* overwrite any backups of that cookbook or
file that you made previously, just in case the problem was with the
cookbook or file itself, and not the program.
What files do I back up for MasterCook?
Generally, you only need to back up those files you have added to the
program, like cookbooks to which you have added recipes, or customized in
some way. Be sure to back up these files regularly, especially when you
are about to uninstall or install another MasterCook product or patch your
MasterCook. Here is a checklist of many kinds of files you might have
customized:
In the Collection Folders:
.pln - meal plans
.mnu - menus
.MC2 - cookbooks
.MCX - picture files
.MCZ - search index files in v6.x (these can be regenerated by MC)
In the Program folder:
address.LST - e-mail addresses for recipe exchange
userdic.tlx - words added to dictionary for spellchecker
In the MC Tools folder:
.mcd - print designs
.mcp - paper definitions
.sl - shopping lists
.pl - pantry
.el - equivalents
.bl - substitutions
.src - saved search criteria
MC Ingredients.ing - ingredient file (if you edited it)
MC Prep Methods.mtd - prep list
MC Alt Sources.mtd - alternate source labels
MC Alt Times.mtd - alternate times labels
MC Wine List.wl - wine list
MC Favorites.mfv - favorites
How do I copy the files?
Let's take backing up your personal cookbooks as an example: To back up
your personal cookbooks, first exit MasterCook. Then use Windows Explorer
to go to your cookbook folders. The default installation folders are:
for the ValuSoft 7.0, C:\Program Files\MasterCook 7\My Collection (or
other collection folder);
for the ValuSoft 6.2, C:\Program Files\MasterCook\My Collection (or other
collection folder);
for the Sierra 6.0, C:\Sierra\MasterCook 6(or 5)\My Collection (or other
collection folders you have added).
Copy the *.mc2 and the associated picture files (*.mcx) to a floppy disk.
Your files relating to meal plans (*.pln) and menus (*.mnu) are also in
this folder, and you can copy them at the same time. The *.mcz files
(search indexes) can be backed up as well, or, if space is at a premium,
you can regenerate them later on if the cookbook needs to be restored.
How do I reinstall my backup files?
To reinstall them, again exit MasterCook. Use Windows Explorer to copy
them back to the same MasterCook folder they came from. Then start
MasterCook. While viewing your list of cookbooks, press the F5 key on your
keyboard to refresh the file list. If you added new collection folders,
use Tools > Manage Collections to ADD these folders.
When should I back up my MasterCook files?
To be absolutely safe, you should back up any file after you have made a
change in it. If you just added a lot of recipes to one particular
cookbook, you don't need to back up "all" of your files, just that one
cookbook. Many people just set an arbitrary schedule for themselves, like
once a week or once a month, depending on how frequently they work with
their cookbooks. Routine backups are totally your decision.
Using a CD to back up
Files you have backed up on a CD will probably have the read-only
attribute. This means that you will not be able to edit or otherwise alter
them, even when you copy them back to your program, unless you change
their file attributes. Use Windows Explorer to copy them from the CD to an
empty folder on your hard drive. Highlight all the file names, choose
Properties from the File Menu, and un-check the Read-only box. (You can
select many files at once and then change their properties at the same
time.) Then move them to the proper location within your MasterCook
folder. For additional information on backing up to CD's, see "Cookbooks -
Backing up Cookbooks on CD" in this cookbook.
IMPORTANT!!! You should *ALWAYS* back up your cookbook and other files
before: (1) uninstalling and reinstalling your original MasterCook program
or other MasterCook product, or (2) installing a patch to a MasterCook
program.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Installation - General Installation Troubleshooting
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The following is a Sierra FAQ for Print Artist that discusses installation
problems. Maybe something here can help you.
**Things to Remember Before Installation**
Removing CD during Installation
Removing CD during the installation may cause the setup program to crash.
Anti-Virus Software
If you have any anti-virus software running on your system, you should
disable it before installing Print Artist.
Other Software Programs
We recommend you exit out of any other software programs before installing
and running Print Artist due to memory constraints. If you are
experiencing lockups, general protection faults or other errors, exit out
of any other software programs, reboot Windows, and then restart Print
Artist.
Windows Debug Software
Be sure to disable Windows debug software before you try to install Print
Artist. The debug kernel will conflict with the Print Artist
installation.
Installing onto a Compressed Hard Drive
If you are using Stacker, DoubleSpace or similar drive compression
technology software, be aware that Print Artist is already very
compressed. This means that you may have to free up more hard disk space
than the minimum requirements for Print Artist before it will install
correctly. For example, installing the Small version of Print Artist may
require up to 48 megabytes of free space on a compressed drive instead of
the 24 megabytes needed on a normal uncompressed drive.
**What to do if installation fails**
1. Make sure there are no smudges or scratches on the CD-ROM.
Try cleaning the CD with a soft, dry cloth.
2. Make certain that the computer system is not loading real-mode drivers.
Real mode drivers are drivers that are intended for use with DOS. They are
16-bit drivers and work poorly with Windows 95 or 98. To see if the system
is loading real-mode drivers:
* Right click on the MY COMPUTER icon, choose PROPERTIES from the menu.
* Click on the PERFORMANCE tab.
* Under Performance Status, read the line called FILE SYSTEM.
* This line should read "32-BIT." If this line reads "Some drives are
using MS-DOS compatibility mode" or "All drives are using MS-DOS
compatibility mode," immediately contact the system or CD-ROM manufacturer
to correct this system problem. (In some cases, updating the CD-ROM driver
could correct the problem.)
* Once the computer system is loading 32-Bit drivers, the program will
install without errors.
3. Delete the Sierra.ini file
Some versions of Sierra's hardware test may fail to recognize your CPU, if
you have an Intel Pentium II or a non-Intel processor. These versions look
for an ID number reported by the chip. AMD, Cyrix and Pentium II chips
will return an unrecognizable number and cause the test to fail.
To resolve this error, follow these steps:
a. Locate the SIERRA.INI file in the /WINDOWS folder and delete this
file. Use the Find or Search feature to locate this file and delete it.
b. Reboot the Computer, disable any antivirus program that may be active,
then begin the installation again.
c. If the SETUP Program asks to test the System, click on No.
d. Next Click on Yes to CONTINUE, regardless on any items not tested.
Although the test may fail, the program will install. The hardware test is
only a convenience to make sure your system will meet the minimum
requirements. It will have no bearing on the program's ability to operate
if the minimum requirements are met.
4. Check the CD-ROM caching and Virtual Memory.
Improper Cache and Virtual Memory setup can cause errors in reading CDs
and can also reduce speed.
To check the caching:
* In Windows 95/98, go to MY COMPUTER and click on the CONTROL PANEL.
* Double click on the SYSTEM icon.
* Choose the PERFORMANCE tab, then the FILE SYSTEM button.
* Go to the CD-ROM tab.
* If the CD-ROM is an IDE CD-ROM, set the SUPPLEMENTAL CACHE SIZE directly
between small and large. Set the OPTIMIZE ACCESS PATTERN for the speed of
the CD-ROM (for example, 4x or higher).
* If the CD-ROM is a SCSI or 16x or higher CD-ROM, set the OPTIMIZE ACCESS
PATTERN for NO READ AHEAD.
* Click on APPLY, then OKAY.
To check the Virtual Memory:
* On the PERFORMANCE tab, click on the VIRTUAL MEMORY button.
* If DISABLE VIRTUAL MEMORY is checked, uncheck it.
* Click on APPLY, then OKAY.
* Close the next window and allow the computer to restart.
5. Now verify that the system has sufficient hard drive space for
installation of the program.
* Open MY COMPUTER.
* Right click on the C Drive and choose PROPERTIES.
* Under FREE SPACE, make certain there is at least 30 to 60 MB or RAM free
just for Windows 95, plus the additional amount of hard drive space
necessary to install the program. This information will be in the manual
that came with the program.
* If the program is going to be installed to another hard drive, make sure
there is at least 30 MB on the C drive, plus check the disk space on the
other drive to ensure the system has enough free hard drive space.
* Remember to allocate twice the listed hard drive space on compressed
drives!
6. Make sure there are no other programs running in WIN95.
To close programs running in the background:
* Hold down the CTRL and ALT keys and press the DEL key. This will bring
up a Close Program Box. The Close Program Box will show the currently
running programs.
* The only programs that should be listed in the task list are the
EXPLORER and SYSTRAY. If there are other programs in the task list,
highlight one of them and click on the END TASK button.
* Repeat steps A and B until the only programs listed in the Close Program
Box are Explorer and Systray.
NOTE: Some programs cannot be shut down using these steps. Shut down those
programs according to the instructions specific to those programs.
7. Now try to install the program.
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"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Installation - Version 5.03 Patch
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Installation
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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HOW TO PATCH MASTERCOOK VERSION 5.x:
First, check to see what MasterCook version you have. The version number
printed on your box, CD, or manual may not be totally accurate. Check the
version number by looking in Help>About MasterCook from the main menu in
MasterCook itself. This will determine which of the patches you will need,
so don't leave this step out.
The latest version of MasterCook 5 is 5.05. The patch downloads are free.
IMPORTANT!!!
IF your installed version shows version 5.0 through 5.02, you will need to
apply the 5.03 patch BEFORE applying the 5.05 patch.
IF your installed version shows version 5.03 or 5.04, you will need to
apply ONLY the 5.05 patch.
IF your installed version shows version 5.05 or if you have the Best of
MasterCook title, you do NOT need to apply ANY patch.
How do I get the patch(es)?
For all the online steps you will take next, it is important to let the
page load fully. That way you can see all the buttons available to you.
Go to this link: http://www.sierra.com/support/technical/updates/main.html
. Choose your program name (MasterCook 5.0) from the drop-down box, and
then press "go" right below the program name box.
The next web page will explain the patches available for your product.
If you have version 5.00 - 5.02 installed, you will need to first download
mc503.exe (you will also need to apply it first, before applying the 5.05
patch) -- then download the 5.05 patch as well.
If you have version 5.03 - 5.04 installed, you will need to download
mc505pat.exe.
Click the name of the file you need, choose a location for download, and
click on it. Your browser will ask you where it should download the file.
Always download to a file on your computer. Do not try to execute or run
the file in the download process. Tell the browser the location of the
folder you have chosen. If you need to download both patches, you will
need to do this one at a time.
How do I apply the patch?
IMPORTANT: Back up your personal cookbooks and personalized files before
applying the patch. Please see: Installation - Backing Up Your Files
After the file(s) is/are downloaded, exit all running programs, including
MasterCook. Make sure that your antivirus program is NOT enabled.
(Sometimes, you can do this by right-clicking the program's icon in your
systray and choosing from a menu; other times you will need to open the
antivirus program and disable it from a menu there.) Also check to see
that Norton's CrashGuard, First Aid, and similar programs are NOT enabled.
You can (and should) double-check to see what programs are running by
pressing ctrl-alt-del on your computer. If you can find out, perhaps from
your computer manufacturer, which programs you can safely end task on at
this stage, you should. During the installation process, many programs ask
you to shut down extra programs that load when your computer starts up. It
makes sense to try and identify those you can live without and still
maintain basic functions (like mouse drivers). Do NOT End Task on Explorer
or Systray.
Now use Windows Explorer to go to the folder where you downloaded the
patch file and doubleclick on the file name. (Remember, if you need to
apply both patches, apply the 5.03 patch first.) The patch will install
automatically.
Restart your computer.
-->If you need to apply both the 5.03 patch and the 5.05 patch, you can
open MasterCook after applying the first patch to make sure it "took."
Check the version number shown in Help>About MasterCook. The version
number in Help>About MasterCook should show version 5.0.3. Can you open
cookbooks? Can you search? Then close MasterCook and follow the same
procedures to apply the second patch. Don't forget to turn off all those
extra programs again.<--
When you are finished with the patching process, you should restart your
computer. This will clear your resources and give Windows a chance to
update its own records. After you restart, all the programs you ended task
on will again be active. The patch file(s) may be deleted after
installation if you like, but you may leave it in place or transfer it to
a zip disk, super disk or similar media to keep in case you need to
reinstall MasterCook at a later time.
Did you get an error message while patching? If you apply the wrong patch,
you WILL get this error: "RTCDLL.DLL is not a valid previous version." If
you get this error, it would be best to uninstall and reinstall
everything.
Here are some things Sierra addressed in the patch. This list is by no
means a complete list and doesn't even come close to naming all the fixes.
What the 5.03 patch does:
* Sierra fixed the issue with importing recipes if there are brackets in
the alternate source field.
* Embedded recipes now export.
* We can sort cookbooks by collection now.
* The MasterCook 4&5 export is now a true version 4 format, the lines are
now truncated to support MasterCook 4's smaller text fields. (MasterCook
5's text fields sure are better -- love those longer fields.)
* A blank row now gets inserted between exported direction cells.
* We now have a category template, although, I still prefer to use my
"dummy" cookbook with all the categories set and colors and fonts I want
for my newly created cookbooks.
* Now it prompts to delete empty categories.
* When you open a new recipe, the title is now highlighted, making it easy
to type in the title.
* We can now edit the ingredients and directions in the Edit Design
window.
* There is new right-click functionality of the MasterList.
* The MasterList has been redesigned to open in its own window.
* Search speed has improved.
* When doing an advanced search and selecting to search for Ingredients to
Use, you no longer have to drag the ingredients that you select from the
list up into the Ingredients to Use box. They are automatically added to
this box as you use the Ctrl key when selecting more than one from the
list.
* The Import Assistant window is more intuitive.
* The Copy to Cookbook button (in the Import Assistant) has been changed
to Move to Cookbook. This way when you are moving parts of the recipe from
the Import Assistant into the Recipe Editor, you can see what you have
left to move.
* Online Help is more extensive.
* We can delete recipes from the Search results.
* When we import our MasterCook 4 cookbooks, the recipe pictures are no
longer unmatched.
* Cookbook files now compress when recipes are deleted.
* Scaling of Recipes has been improved; units of measure will no longer
convert -- going from 2 cups will result in 4 cups.
* Copying a duplicate recipe to a cookbook now results in a prompt of what
to do -- rename, overwrite, etc.
* Auto-numbering directions is added as a global setting from the
Preferences.
* Recipes added to Menus and MealPlans will retain their original
servings.
* There are new buttons for the shopping list - Check All and Uncheck All.
* If you don't have any items in your shopping list checked, you will get
prompted that a shopping list won't print since you don't have any items
selected to print.
* Categorization of Wines
* Linking of tips to entries in the Wine List
* New fields are available in the Wine List: quality, availability,
pricing and source
* Sorting of Wines by alphabet, availability, category, price, quality,
region, source and wine name
* Category/Cuisine/Rating template now available when creating New
Cookbooks
* Introduction to MasterCook
* Contextual Help is available by pressing F1
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Installation - Version 5.05 Patch
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Installation
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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HOW TO PATCH MASTERCOOK VERSION 5:
First, check to see what MasterCook version you have. The version number
printed on your box, CD, or manual may not be totally accurate. Check the
version number by looking in Help>About MasterCook from the main menu in
MasterCook itself. This will determine which of the patches you will need,
so don't leave this step out.
The latest version of MasterCook 5 is 5.05. The patch downloads are free.
IMPORTANT!!!
IF your installed version shows version 5.0 through 5.02, you will need to
apply the 5.03 patch BEFORE applying the 5.05 patch.
IF your installed version shows version 5.03 or 5.04, you will need to
apply ONLY the 5.05 patch.
IF your installed version shows version 5.05 or if you have the Best of
MasterCook title, you do NOT need to apply ANY patch.
How do I get the patch(es)?
For all the online steps you will take next, it is important to let the
page load fully. That way you can see all the buttons available to you.
Go to this link: http://www.sierra.com/support/technical/updates/main.html
. Choose your program name (MasterCook 5.0) from the drop-down box, and
then press "go" right below the program name box.
The next web page will explain the patches available for your product.
If you have version 5.00 - 5.02 installed, you will need to first download
mc503.exe (you will also need to apply it first, before applying the 5.05
patch) -- then download the 5.05 patch as well.
If you have version 5.03 - 5.04 installed, you will need to download
mc505pat.exe.
Click the name of the file you need, choose a location for download, and
click on it. Your browser will ask you where it should download the file.
Always download to a file on your computer. Do not try to execute or run
the file in the download process. Tell the browser the location of the
folder you have chosen. If you need to download both patches, you will
need to do this one at a time.
How do I apply the patch?
IMPORTANT: Back up your personal cookbooks and personalized files before
applying the patch. Please see: Installation - Backing Up Your Files
After the file(s) is/are downloaded, exit all running programs, including
MasterCook. Make sure that your antivirus program is NOT enabled.
(Sometimes, you can do this by right-clicking the program's icon in your
systray and choosing from a menu; other times you will need to open the
antivirus program and disable it from a menu there.) Also check to see
that Norton's CrashGuard, First Aid, and similar programs are NOT enabled.
You can (and should) double-check to see what programs are running by
pressing ctrl-alt-del on your computer. If you can find out, perhaps from
your computer manufacturer, which programs you can safely end task on at
this stage, you should. During the installation process, many programs ask
you to shut down extra programs that load when your computer starts up. It
makes sense to try and identify those you can live without and still
maintain basic functions (like mouse drivers). Do NOT End Task on Explorer
or Systray.
Now use Windows Explorer to go to the folder where you downloaded the
patch file and doubleclick on the file name. (Remember, if you need to
apply both patches, apply the 5.03 patch first.) The patch will install
automatically.
Restart your computer.
-->If you need to apply both the 5.03 patch and the 5.05 patch, you can
open MasterCook after applying the first patch to make sure it "took."
Check the version number shown in Help>About MasterCook. The version
number in Help>About MasterCook should show version 5.0.3. Can you open
cookbooks? Can you search? Then close MasterCook and follow the same
procedures to apply the second patch. Don't forget to turn off all those
extra programs again.<--
When you are finished with the patching process, you should restart your
computer. This will clear your resources and give Windows a chance to
update its own records. After you restart, all the programs you ended task
on will again be active. The patch file(s) may be deleted after
installation if you like, but you may leave it in place or transfer it to
a zip disk, super disk or similar media to keep in case you need to
reinstall MasterCook at a later time.
Did you get an error message while patching? If you apply the wrong patch,
you WILL get this error: "RTCDLL.DLL is not a valid previous version." If
you get this error, it would be best to uninstall and reinstall
everything.
[1] WHAT THE MASTERCOOK 5.05 PATCH FIXES
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-In Categories/Ratings, when modifying categories or ratings for multiple
recipes, inadvertent reset of cuisine no longer occurs.
-In Cookbooks, cookbooks marked as READ-ONLY or located on READ-ONLY media
(e.g. CDROM) can now be opened.
-In Alternate Source Label editing dialog, label changed to indicate list
is global and not cookbook-specific.
-In Alternate Times Label list, adding a new time label no longer results
in it being put in list twice.
-In Export, when mailing a recipe via SMTP, the Date Sent will now be
correct.
-In Export, when mailing a recipe via MAPI (Client Enabled), the client
(e.g. Outlook) address dialog will now be opened.
-In Export, when mailing a recipe, multiple addresses in the "to" field no
longer causes address corruption.
-In Find and Replace, replacing a recipe title with that of an existing
recipe no longer causes a fatal.
-In Find and Replace, the Next Recipe button no longer skips over recipes.
-In Import Assistant, cancelling out will no longer generate an erroneous
'Low Resources' warning dialog.
-In Ingredient List, entering a fraction will no longer return an ‘INVALID
INTEGER’ warning.
-In MasterList, copying a recipe to another MasterList will now carry over
the original recipe's categories too.
-In MasterList, deleting 'Uncategorized' will no longer cause a fatal
(note that this is just a placeholder and cannot really be deleted
anyway).
-In MasterList, ESC key no longer disables the left and right panes.
-In Meals, deleting a MealPlan while one of its Menus is open no longer
causes a fatal.
-In My Categories, removing a category, cuisine or rating no longer causes
a fatal.
-In Printing, Dietary Fiber is now available on the Nutrition Summary
print out.
-In Printing, whenever you select 'PRINT CATEGORY INDEX', category titles
will now print.
-In Printing, a MealPlan will now include the date of the meals on the
print out.
-In Print Design, arrowing through combo box lists will no longer cause
processing until a selection is made.
-In Recipe Display, Alt+X will now launch the recipe ratings dialog.
-In Recipe Editor, Alt+K will now launch the recipe scaling dialog.
-In Recipe Editor, New Recipe will reset the cursor position in
ingredients and directions table to the first item.
-In Recipe Editor, tabbing out of the fast-fill ingredients field no
longer causes cursor to "stick".
-In Recipe Editor, inserting a video from a network location (e.g.
/\server) no longer fatals.
-In Recipe Editor, Modify Category/Cuisine/Rating dialog will now open to
selected tab (e.g. cuisines).
-In Recipe Editor, Menus or MealPlans, opening up the ingredient list will
open to the highlighted ingredient.
-In Recipe List, opening the first recipe (in title order) to a new window
no longer causes a fatal.
-In Search, the 30-recipe limit on copies from Search Results has been
removed.
-In Search, the cuisine list will no longer appear to be empty when a
recipe with a blank cuisine exists.
-In Search, ingredient searches thru MealPlans now works correctly.
-In Search, any combination of source, alternate source, author and
copyright may now be searched.
-In Search, subtitle searches thru recipes where first ingredient is a
blank line no longer causes a fatal.
-In Search Results, the Delete key will now delete the selected recipe
from its cookbook as well as from the list.
-In Search, selection of search criteria for Time and Nutrition ranges is
better behaved.
-In Search, changing search target type (e.g. from cookbooks to menus)
will now reset all search criteria.
-In Shopping and Ingredient Lists, improved accuracy of computed costs to
the nearest penny.
-In Substitutions and Yield/Equivalents, general behavior of editors and
list displays improved.
-In Substitutions and Yield/Equivalents, adding a new item to an empty
list no longer cause a fatal.
-In Wine List, keyboard shortcuts for cut & paste now work in editable
fields.
-In Wine List, the current selection will be preserved when changing sort
order.
-In Wine List, when sorted by region, adding a new wine will no longer
cause a fatal.
-In Wine List, when sorted by category, changes to a wine's category will
display in the wine list as expected.
-Vast speed improvements in Search and MasterList.
-MCX (cookbook picture) files will now shrink to recover excess empty
space from deleted pictures.
-Checked items are now displayed at the top of the category list for a
recipe.
-Prompt to delete empty categories will now only be displayed if an empty
category is detected.
-Arrow keys now work in combo boxes.
-ENTER key behavior corrected in many places (advancing cells in edit
tables, default button activation etc.).
-CTRL-ENTER key will once again add a carriage return into an editable
table cell (recipe editor, shopping, etc.).
-Delete key will now work as expected in Import Assistant, Shopping,
Favorites and Search views.
-Delete key will now work as expected in dialogs launched from Shopping,
Favorites and Search views.
-Refresh (F5) will now always correctly update document lists in
non-cookbook/non-recipe views.
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Q. What if we buy more than one set of cookbooks with MasterCook 5.x/6.x?
Do we use the "install" application for each one? Is this the only way to
get the glossary links and movie tips. (See the mastercook.ini file and
sections for [PicturePacks] and[VideoLists])
Also, what happens to the ingredients that I added if I install the
Cooking Light version "on top of" the Betty Crocker version?
What does SierraHome recommend? Does copy from CD give us all the
ingredients and menus and extras?
Q. In MasterCook 4.06 I used the Merge Wizard to add the Graham Kerr and
MasterCook Deluxe to my Cooking Light. I can not find any reference to a
Merge Wizard in the 5.x/6.x manual. What do I do?
A. MasterCook 5.x/6.x can use the same application directory to store all
content releases such as Betty Crocker, Cooking Light, Deluxe. In other
words the entire application can live in a single folder instead of
multiple folders throughout your hard drive. Each content release will
have a Collection folder such as Betty Crocker Collections, Deluxe
Collections and Cooking Light Collections (which are the extent currently
of the 5.0 releases). The same executable is used for all products.
After you install a new content release such as Cooking Light in
conjunction with Deluxe the following things will have happened.
1. You will have a new collections folder with the content that belongs to
that release.
2. You will have a merged tips file with new videos/etc.
3. The Cookbook Browser screen will have all cookbooks from all products
displayed.
4. Your branding (Splashscreen, watermarks, etc.) throughout the program
will change to the last installed product. For example if at first you had
Betty Crocker installed then later installed Cooking Light then you will
have all the artwork for Cooking Light instead of Betty Crocker.
5. New Menus and Meal plans should be present.
NOTE: The only upgradable files from 4.0 are Cookbooks and the USER.ING
file. All other files (menus/meal plans, shopping lists, print layouts,
etc.) are non-upgradable items from 4.0 and will have to be re-created.
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Basic Install Guidelines
1. Back up your files. Before installing ANY MasterCook product or patch,
you should be sure to back up all of your existing MasterCook files.
You may want to review "Installation - Backing Up Your Files" to make sure
you have your backups in order.
2. Exit all running programs, including MasterCook. Make sure that your
antivirus program is NOT enabled. (Sometimes, you can do this by
right-clicking the program's icon in your systray and choosing from a
menu; other times you will need to open the antivirus program and disable
it from a menu there.) Also check to see that Norton's CrashGuard, First
Aid, and similar programs are NOT enabled. Many people have had corrupt
installations of MasterCook because antivirus or crash guard programs were
left running during installation.
You can (and should) double-check to see what programs are running by
pressing ctrl-alt-del on your computer. If you can find out, perhaps from
your computer manufacturer, which programs you can safely end task on at
this stage, you should. During the installation process, many programs ask
you to shut down extra programs that load when your computer starts up. It
makes sense to try and identify those you can live without and still
maintain basic functions (like mouse drivers). Do NOT End Task on Explorer
or Systray.
3. During the install process, MasterCook 6 will search your hard drive
for preexisting user.ing files from MasterCook 4. (This is the file that
contains the information on ingredients you have added or amended for your
ingredients list.) If you do NOT want these files incorporated into your
v6 installation, you should do a thorough search of your entire hard drive
to locate them and rename them with a distinctive file extension such as
*.temp. Otherwise they will be automatically incorporated into the
MasterCook 6 MC Ingredients.ing file. After MasterCook 6 is installed, go
back and rename them to their original name.
Version 6 Install Options
These different options are set out because MasterCook 6 installs somewhat
differently than the other MasterCook products you may have installed in
the past. It should default to installing over the top of your existing
MasterCook 5, essentially replacing it. This was designed into the program
so that it could incorporate your personalized ingredient lists from prior
versions, both 4 and 5. This is a great feature, but, if you do not want
to merge versions 5 and 6 now, other install options are available.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In order to get the result you want, be sure to note the
folder the installer states will be used and direct it elsewhere if
necessary.
1. Default Install: Allow (or direct) MasterCook 6 to install itself in
your MasterCook 5 folder. It will update your version 5 to version 6.
During the installation it will merge your v4 user.ing file and v5 MC
Ingredients.ing file. If it finds duplicate ingredients you will be
prompted about what to do. At the prompt select "Yes" *OR* "Yes to All"
and it will keep your existing ingredient values. If you select "No," the
ingredient list from the v6 CD will install.
Note that your shortcuts will still read as they did for the version 5
program, but the version 6 program will open when you click on them. If
you want to change the wording of the shortcut, right click the shortcut
with your mouse and choose Rename from the menu. Press the right arrow key
one time so the current wording will stay visible, then edit the name.
Press Enter to accept the new name.
If you choose this option, you should be sure that your version 5
installation has been updated with all applicable patches to the latest
version, 5.05.
2. Version 6 Only Install: Uninstall MasterCook 5 using either the
Uninstall utility from the Start>Programs>Sierra menu or the Add/Remove
Programs from Start>Settings>Control Panel. Manually delete the v5
directory from Windows Explorer, taking care that your files are backed up
elsewhere, and delete any shortcuts from Start>Programs or your Desktop.
Reboot your computer to reset system resources and update Windows. Disable
your virus scanner and close all running programs (see the Basic Install
Guidelines above) and install version 6. This will NOT merge your v5 ING
file since it can only do this during an installation over the top of v5.
If you want to use this option and still want to merge your v5 ingredients
file into v6, use Windows Explorer to create a folder named MasterCook 6,
and create a subfolder called Mc Tools within it. Place your v5 ING file
inside of the Mc Tools folder you created, then direct the installation to
the new MasterCook 6 directory you created. This will merge your v5 MC
Ingredients.ing file with the MC Ingredients.ing file on the v6 CD. During
the installation, you will be prompted about what to do if it finds
duplicate ingredients. At the prompt select "Yes" *OR* "Yes to All" and it
will keep your existing ingredient values. If you select "No," the
ingredient list from the v6 CD will install.
3. Keep Version 5 on Your Computer: You can keep version 5 and version 6
on your computer at the same time, but you CANNOT have them open at the
same time. To do this, use Windows Explorer to create a folder named
MasterCook 6. If you want to use your v5 MC Ingredients.ing file, create a
subfolder called Mc Tools within the new MasterCook 6 folder. Place a COPY
of your v5 ING file inside the Mc Tools folder you created, and then
direct the installation to the new MasterCook 6 folder. (Be sure to follow
the Basic Install Guidelines above and turn off your antivirus, and
running programs.) This will merge your v5 MC Ingredients.ing file with
the MC Ingredients.ing file on the v6 CD. During the installation, you
will be prompted about what to do if it finds duplicate ingredients. At
the prompt select "Yes" *OR* "Yes to All" and it will keep your existing
ingredient values. If you select "No," the ingredient list from the v6 CD
will install.
IMPORTANT NOTE: IF you decide to keep both version 5 and 6 on your
computer, you *cannot* have them open at the same time. They will "share"
cookbook files. For example, if you open an existing v5 cookbook with v6,
it will create a "shortcut" to that cookbook on the v6 Cookbook Browser
(opening a v4 cookbook would cause v5 or v6 to make its own copy), so
don't delete that cookbook unless you want it to disappear from both
versions.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR VERSION 4 USERS: If you have MasterCook 4 on your
computer when you install version 6, you can remove v.4 later, if you
like, without affecting the version 6 installation. To do this, use the
MasterCook 4 "Setup & Uninstall" shortcut in your Start>Programs menu. If
you have created a subfolder in the Sierra Start>Programs menu for version
4 shortcuts, make sure that the Setup & Uninstall shortcut is in the main
Sierra shortcut subfolder. (Your shortcut "path" should be
Start>Programs>Sierra>Setup & Uninstall).
If your Setup & Uninstall shortcut is in an MasterCook 4 or other folder
or subfolder, move it: right click the Start button, and choose Explore
from the menu. A Windows Explorer window will open, showing you the
Windows\Start Menu\Programs structure. Click on the + next to Programs (in
the left pane) to expand it, and scroll down to Sierra. Arrange your view
of the files and folders so that you can see the Setup & Install shortcut
in the right pane and the Sierra folder in the left pane. Drag the Setup &
Install shortcut on top of the Sierra folder and drop it there. Any
MasterCook 4 shortcuts in other shortcut subfolders will need to be
removed manually after the uninstall has taken place and you have
rebooted.
If the MasterCook 4 uninstall shortcut is not in the main Sierra folder,
the uninstall will remove the entire Sierra shortcut folder and you will
lose the shortcuts only to all your other MasterCook installations, except
for the desktop. The MasterCook 4 uninstall will only remove its own
program files. Your other MasterCook programs themselves will not be
affected, and you can create new shortcuts from the exe files if you need
to, but you can avoid this extra step if you follow the procedure outlined
above.
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BACK UP YOUR FILES!
See "Installation - Backing Up Your Files" in this cookbook. It contains
instructions on how to back up your cookbooks and other files. If you are
uninstalling MC 6.0 because of a problem with a particular cookbook or
other customized feature, do not overwrite any backups you had made of
that file before you started having the problem.
NOTE: If you installed MC 6.0 over the top of your MC 5, your folder and
shortcut names may still say MC 5. You will need to use uninstall for
whatever version shows up in the Add/Remove Programs list. To reinstall in
the same configuration, you should reinstall MC 5 first, patch it to 5.05
if necessary, and then reinstall MC 6.0 over the top again.
UNINSTALL Sierra MC 6.0
To uninstall, use either the Uninstall utility from the
Start>Programs>Sierra menu or the Add/Remove Programs from
Start>Settings>Control Panel.
If you receive a message asking whether to uninstall shared files (*.dll
files), choose to remove them.
Restart your computer. This will reset your resources.
Using Windows Explorer, go to the folder where you originally installed MC
6.0, and delete the MasterCook 6 subfolder and all of its contents. If you
used the default installation folder, this will be in C:\Sierra\. NOTE: If
you are sharing your computer with other members of your family and have
different Windows User Profiles, you will want to make sure to remove any
instances of MasterCook for each user. Using Windows Explorer you can find
them in a directory like this: C:\WINDOWS\PROFILES\your name\START
MENU\PROGRAMS
> You MUST delete the MasterCook Folder and all its contents <
Delete any MC 6 shortcuts on your desktop or Start>Programs menu.
Empty your recycle bin.
INSTALL Sierra MC 6.0
Restart your computer to reset resources (if you did not just do this as
part of the uninstall process).
Exit all running programs, including MasterCook. Make sure that your
antivirus program is NOT enabled. (Sometimes, you can do this by
right-clicking the program's icon in your systray and choosing from a
menu; other times you will need to open the antivirus program and disable
it from a menu there.) Also check to see that Norton's CrashGuard, First
Aid, and similar programs are NOT enabled.
You can (and should) double-check to see what programs are running by
pressing ctrl-alt-del on your computer. If you can find out, perhaps from
your computer manufacturer, which programs you can safely end task on at
this stage, you should. During the installation process, many programs ask
you to shut down extra programs that load when your computer starts up. It
makes sense to try and identify those you can live without and still
maintain basic functions (like mouse drivers). Do NOT End Task on Explorer
or Systray.
Install MC 6.0 by placing the CD in the drive and clicking on "Install."
When installation is complete, restart your computer to reset your
resources and let Windows update its records.
If you are installing multiple Sierra MC 6.0 titles, restart your computer
between each installation (and don't forget to turn off all those running
programs, antivirus, CrashGuard, etc. EACH time you restart.)
If you are installing multiple Sierra MC 6.0 titles one over the other,
the splash screen that displays when you open your program will belong to
the last MC 6 title you installed, so you can keep this in mind when you
reinstall your version 6.0 products.
Replace your backed up files
When you have completed the installation and patching and have tested to
make sure your MasterCook is working properly (can you open cookbooks? add
a recipe? search?), close MasterCook and, using Windows Explorer, copy
your backed up cookbooks and files to the appropriate folder (see the How
to Back Up FAQ). Then open MasterCook to the cookbook browser window
(where all the cookbook titles are listed) and press F5 so MasterCook can
refresh its file list. If you added collection folders, you will need to
use Tools>Manage Collections to add them to MC.
If you are restoring cookbooks and files you have backed up on a CD-R or
CD-RW, the files and cookbooks may have the read-only attribute. This
means that you will not be able to edit or otherwise alter them, even when
you copy them back to your program, unless you change their file
attributes. Just so you don't lose track of which files are involved when
you want to restore them to your program, use Windows Explorer to copy
them to an empty folder on your hard drive. Highlight all the file names,
choose Properties from the File Menu, and un-check the Read-only box. (You
can select many files at once and then change their properties at the same
time.) Then you can move them to the proper place in your MasterCook
folder.
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Back up your files. Before installing ANY MasterCook product or patch, you
should be sure to back up all existing MasterCook files you want to use in
the new installation.
You may want to review on the message board
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.eed7c76 (How to Back Up MC 4.x)
and/or "Installation - Backing Up Your Files" in this cookbook to make
sure you have your backups in order.
ValuSoft Install Basics
The ValuSoft MC 6.2 will install into a different folder than Sierra
programs on your hard drive, C:\Program Files\MasterCook. Unlike Sierra
programs, we are not to install the ValuSoft program on top of (in the
same folder as) an existing MasterCook MC 5/6.0/6.2 program. (You can
combine the content of prior installations in a separate step, see below.)
If you have both the ValuSoft Complete Suite with Betty Crocker and the
ValuSoft Deluxe titles, uninstall the Deluxe title and install only the
Complete Suite (Betty Crocker), which contains all the same content as the
Deluxe. UNinstall ValuSoft MC 6.2 by using the uninstall shortcut in your
Start > Programs menu (Start > Programs > MasterCook > Uninstall
MasterCook). (But be sure you have backed up your files!)
We recommend that you also UNinstall any existing Sierra programs as well,
using the instructions in "Installation - Version 6.0 (SierraHome)
Uninstall and Reinstall" in this cookbook for either MC 5/6.0. If you are
using MC 3/4, uninstall using this faq as a guide:
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.eed7c8c "How to Uninstall and
Reinstall MC 4.x"
Restart your computer. Use Windows Explorer to verify that any previous
MasterCook folder has been removed; if not, remove it manually and empty
your Recycle Bin.
Basic Install Guidelines
Exit all running programs. Make sure that your antivirus program is NOT
enabled. (Sometimes, you can do this by right-clicking the program's icon
in your systray and choosing from a menu; other times you will need to
open the antivirus program and disable it from a menu there.) Also check
to see that Norton's CrashGuard, First Aid, and similar programs are NOT
enabled. Many people have had corrupt installations of MasterCook because
antivirus or crash guard programs were left running during installation.
You can (and should) double-check to see what programs are running by
pressing ctrl-alt-del on your computer. If you can find out, perhaps from
your computer manufacturer, which programs you can safely end task on at
this stage, you should. During the installation process, many programs ask
you to shut down extra programs that load when your computer starts up. It
makes sense to try and identify those you can live without and still
maintain basic functions (like mouse drivers). Do NOT End Task on Explorer
or Systray.
Install The ValuSoft MC 6.2 program by inserting the CD in the drive and
following the instructions that appear on the screen. Note that you should
use the default installation folder for the install (C:\Program
Files\MasterCook) if you intend to use the ValuSoft Merge Tool.
Restart your computer.
Merge Tool:
If you have MasterCook content from previous Sierra MasterCook titles that
you would like to add, download the ValuSoft Merge Tool from
http://www.valusoftsupport.com/library/patch/MasterCookTools.vbs
Execute the file you downloaded by double-clicking on it. Then restart
your computer so the Merge Tool will be available to you.
IF you are RE-installing your MasterCook, you will need to execute the
file again by double-clicking on it and restarting your computer. If you
do not do this, you will still see the options on your right-click menu,
but clicking them will not do anything. You need to double-click the
MasterCook Tools.vbs file again so the choices will become active.
To merge Sierra MC 5/6.0 program content see "Installation - Version
5.x/6.x Combining ALL SierraHome and ValuSoft Products" in this cookbook
which sets out in detail how to add MC 5/6.0 content to your ValuSoft MC
6.2 installation.
To merge MasterCook 4.x program content see: "Installation - Version 6.2
(ValuSoft) - Merging MC Versions 4/3/2/1 Products into ValuSoft MC 6.2" in
this cookbook.
Useful Tip: If you are converting a lot of MC 2/3/4 cookbooks, it would be
a good idea to make a backup copy of the new *.mc2 files. Then if you
should later need to reinstall, you won't have to go through the
conversion process again; you can restore the converted files just like
any other *.mc2 cookbook file.
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Do you have multiple titles of MasterCook 5.x and 6.x, including a v6.2
ValuSoft title? Would you like to combine them all into one program? This
discussion explains how to combine the 5.x and 6.x titles with your
ValuSoft MC 6.2 title. (Procedures for combining the content of MC
versions 4 and below is covered in "Installation - Merging MasterCook
Versions 4/3/2/1 Products into ValuSoft MC 6.2" in this cookbook.
With the SierraHome v5.x and v6.0 titles we were instructed to install
them over the top of each other (in the same folder) for content to be
merged. With ValuSoft's v6.x titles we are NOT to do this. Instead, we are
to install the ValuSoft title and then merge the content of prior
SierraHome titles in a separate step.
IMPORTANT: BACK UP FILES FIRST
Before proceeding further back up all your current MasterCook files
(cookbooks, menus, etc.) See "Installation - Backing Up Your Files" in
this cookbook.
Uninstall prior versions:
1. Uninstall your various MasterCook 5.x or 6.0 programs. You can use the
ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS window from the Control Panel in Windows. Or, you can
use the uninstall shortcut in your Start > Programs menu: Start > Programs
> SIERRA > MasterCook 5 [or 6] > Uninstall [name of your title, like
Deluxe Collection]
2. Restart the computer so that Windows can update itself.
3. Delete any MasterCook folders that remained behind after the
uninstalls. (DON'T delete your backed-up stuff though!)
4. If you have a program such as Norton's WinDoctor, you can run it at
this point to find and "repair" any leftover keys in the Windows Registry.
(This step is not necessary.)
Install the ValuSoft MC 6.2
1. Now install your ValuSoft v6.2 title. (The Betty Crocker title contains
all the Deluxe content as well. So, if you have both, just install the
Betty Crocker title.) Follow the directions in "Installation - Version 6.2
(ValuSoft's)" in this cookbook, and DON'T forget to disable your virus
scanner first!
2. Restart your computer to let Windows update itself again.
MERGING COOKBOOKS/MENUS
NOTE: Perform the following with your MasterCook program closed and virus
scanner disabled.
1. Use Windows Explorer to create a collection folder for each of your
other products or your own cookbooks (such as Food & Wine, and Cooking
Light). For example: C:\Cookbooks\Food & Wine Collection and
C:\Cookbooks\Cooking Light Collection. (You can name the folder what you
wish and put them where you wish. You don't even have to use the word
"collection" in the title.)
2. Manually copy the cookbook files, cookbook picture files and menus to
the collection folder(s) you created in the previous step. With the Food &
Wine CD inserted into your CD drive (assuming it is assigned to the letter
D) you will find the cookbook (*.mc2) and picture files (*.mcx) located
here: D:\system\cookbooks. You will find the menu files (*.mnu) located
here: D:\system\menus. Copy/paste all the *.mc2, *.mcx, and *.mnu files to
the collection folders you created in the previous step.
3. Remove the read-only attribute from all these files. After they are
pasted into the folder you created in step #1 above, SELECT ALL the files
and choose PROPERTIES from the File menu in Windows Explorer, remove that
checkmark for READ-ONLY, and place a checkmark in the box for Archive. (If
you leave the setting read-only you will not be able to make changes to
these files while using program.)
4. Now you can launch the program and use the Collection Manager to ADD
the collection folder to your MasterCook program. Launch MasterCook and
choose MANAGE COLLECTIONS from the Tools menu. Navigate to the collection
folder you created in step #1 above, highlight it and select the ADD
button. Now that folder will be registered with MasterCook, and the
content will be available to you inside the program. Do this for each
collection folder you added. (From now on MasterCook will check these
folders to see what you added/removed outside the program when you press
F5 or select Tools > Refresh File List.)
Perform the same steps using your v5.x or v6.0 Cooking Light CD. If you
are using v6.0 you will also find search index files (*.mcz) to copy over
for each cookbook.
For adding cookbooks from MC 4 and below, see "Installation - Merging
MasterCook Versions 4/3/2/1 Products into ValuSoft MC 6.2" in this
cookbook.
MERGING THE TIPS FILES
NOTE: Perform the following with your MasterCook program closed and virus
scanner disabled.
1. Download and execute (double-click) the ValuSoft Merge Tool from:
http://www.valusoftsupport.com/library/patch/MasterCookTools.vbs
Restart your computer to activate the Merge Tool. DISABLE your virus
scanner, etc., again.
2. Using Windows Explorer navigate to the D:\system\Tools folder on the
Food & Wine CD.
3. Copy these two files to a temporary folder on your computer:
MC Tips.mtf
MC Tips.mcx
4. Remove the read-only settings from these files. (Right click on them
and choose PROPERTIES. Remove the checkmark from the read-only box.) This
step is important.
5. Right click on that MC Tips.mtf file and choose MERGE MASTERCOOK TIPS
from the pop-up menu. It will add the Food & Wine tips to your program.
You can verify this by checking the MasterList after launching the
program.
6. You can now safely delete both files (MC Tips.mtf and MC Tips.mcx) you
copied to your computer.
Perform the same steps using your v5.x or v6.0 Cooking Light CD.
ADDING VIDEOS TO HARD DRIVE
If you wish to continue inserting the CD into the drive to view the video
tips then you can just ignore this section.
1. Close MasterCook.
2. Use Windows Explorer to copy the contents of the VidTips folder on a CD
(you might choose the v5.05 Best Of MasterCook CD since it already
contains the most *.mov files.) to your hard drive somewhere. Create a new
folder named C:\VidTips and then paste all the *.mov files to your new
folder. Remove the read-only attributes for all these *.mov files.
3. Remove the CD from the drive.
4. Find and delete the MC World.mcw file on your computer. It can be found
inside the ValuSoft v6.2 folder here: C:\Program Files\MasterCook\Mc
Tools.
5. Launch MasterCook and go to the Tips screen.
6. Select/highlight a tip that has a video, like "Adding Fat to Flour."
Double click where it shows the picture.
7. You will then get an error message stating it can't locate the video
file. Select the BROWSE button and navigate to a video tip in the folder
you placed on your hard drive in step #1. All the tips will refer to that
folder from now on.
MERGING THE INGREDIENT LIST
NOTE: Perform the following with your MasterCook program closed and virus
scanner disabled.
1. Using Windows Explorer, locate your backed up copy of the v5/6 ING file
(MC Ingredients.ing).
2. Right click on the MC Ingredients.ing file and choose MERGE MASTERCOOK
INGREDIENTS from the pop-up menu. If you have edited ingredients that were
in the original Ingredient List (such as by adding prices or changing the
nutritional values), you will receive a message that there is a duplicate
ingredient and you will be asked what to do. Answer NO or NO TO ALL to
keep your edited version of the ingredient. If you select "Yes", the
existing ingredient in your MC 6.2 Ingredient File will be used.
Now your v5/6 ING file is merged with the v6.2 one. (Keep this file backed
up from now on.)
If you have version 4 or below, see "Installation - Merging MasterCook
Versions 4/3/2/1 Products into ValuSoft MC 6.2" in this cookbook.
OTHER MC 5/6 FILES
Now all you need to do is finish copying over the other backed-up files to
their proper homes, i.e. shopping lists, substitutions, print designs and
any others that you personally edited. "Installation - Backing Up Your
Files" in this cookbook will tell you how to restore them.
And, if you perfer to have a different "look/watermark" throughout the
program, just replace the MC Branding.mbf file that is found inside the
\MasterCook\MC Tools folder on your computer. If you wish to have the Food
& Wine look, locate that MC Branding.mbf on the CD and overwrite the one
in the \MasterCook\MC Tools folder on your computer. Remove the read-only
settings for the file after copying it over. If you'd rather have the
Cooking Light look, use the MC Branding.mbf from its CD instead. Have
fun!!
CHANGING THE BRANDING FILE TO CHANGE LOOK
If you prefer to have a different "look/watermark" throughout the program,
just replace the MC Branding.mbf file that is found inside the
\MasterCook\MC Tools folder on your computer. If you wish to have the Food
& Wine look, locate that MC Branding.mbf on the CD and overwrite the one
in the \MasterCook\MC Tools folder on your computer. Remove the read-only
settings for the file after copying it over. If you'd rather have the
Cooking Light look, use the MC Branding.mbf from its CD instead.
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Do you have Mastercook titles from version 4 and below that you would like
to add to your ValuSoft MC 6.2 program? This discusssion explains how to
do accomplish this.
First, BACK UP your cookbook (*.mcf and *.mrf) files, and your USER.ING
file (these are the new ingredients you added yourself, not ingredients
from the original MC Ingredient List that you might have edited). These
are the only files you will be able to convert to use with your MC 6.2.
Uninstall your older MasterCook program. After uninstalling, go back and
remove any leftover MasterCook folders that might exist.
Install your ValuSoft MC 6.2 program, following the steps in "Installation
- Version 6.2 (ValuSoft's)" included in this cookbook. DON'T forget to
disable your virus scanner first!
If you have not already done so, download the ValuSoft Merge Tool from:
http://www.valusoftsupport.com/library/patch/MasterCookTools.vbs
Execute the file you downloaded by double-clicking on it. then restart
your computer so the Merge Tool will be available to you.
To convert cookbook files: Do not have the MC program open for these
steps. Copy the cookbook files from the MC CD or other backup location to
a separate folder on your hard drive, one that you've made for the
purpose. You'll need the *.mcf (cookbook/recipes) and *.mrf (picture)
files only. If the files were copied from a CD, highlight all the
filenames, right-click, choose Properties, UNcheck the box beside the
read-only attribute, and place a checkmark beside Archive. Then right
click each *.mcf file in turn and choose Convert MasterCook 4.x Cookbook.
The cookbook will be converted and placed in the My Collection folder of
your MC 6.2 installation. After each cookbook is converted, you can move
over to your MC 6.2 folder and move each set of new cookbook files (the
cookbook *.mc2 and picture *.mcx) into a new collection folder. When
you're done, open MC and use Tools > Manage Collections to ADD your new
collection folders to MC's memory. Delete the *.mcf and *.mrf files you
used for conversion purposes from your computer.
NOTE: Cookbooks in the MC 2/3/4 *.mcf format can also be converted for use
in ValuSoft MC 6.2 by opening MC 6.2 and choosing File > Open from the
main file menu. Direct MC to the folder where your *.mcf cookbook files
are located. You will be asked if you want to create a new cookbook. MC
6.2 will convert the cookbook, leaving the original cookbook unchanged.
To convert the MC 4.x user.ing file: Do not have the MC program open for
these steps. Copy the MC 4 user.ing file from its backup location to a
separate folder on your hard drive, one that you've made for the purpose.
If you had it backed up on CD, check the file, as above, to make sure the
file attributes are not read-only. Then right-click the file name and
choose Convert MasterCook 4.x Ingredients.
To merge MC 1/2/3 program content:
Cookbooks in the MC 2/3 format can be converted using the same procedures
described for MC 4 cookbooks, above. Cookbooks in the MC 1 format must
first be converted to MC 2 format (opened into MC 2); then the resulting
MC 2 cookbook can be converted as any other MC 2/3/4 cookbook.
The user.ing files from MC 2/3 can only be converted if they are first
converted to MC 4 format; then the amended MC 4 user.ing file can be
converted as described above. [To convert to MC 4 format, place the
user.ing file from the MC 2/3 installation in the MC 4 directory
(C:\SIERRA\MCOOK4, C:\SIERRA\CKLT4, etc.), then reopen MC 4.] The user.ing
files from MC 1 can be converted to MC 2 format only by installing MC 2 on
top of MC 1; the resulting MC 2 user.ing must then be converted to MC 4
version, as above.
Useful Tip: If you are converting a lot of MC 2/3/4 cookbooks, it would be
a good idea to make a backup copy of the new *.mc2 files. Then if you
should later need to reinstall, you won't have to go through the
conversion process again; you can restore the converted files just like
any other *.mc2 cookbook file.
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Installation - Version 7.0 (ValuSoft)
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How to Install v. 7.0
Back up your files. Before installing ANY MasterCook product or patch, you
should be sure to back up all existing MasterCook files you want to use in
the new installation.
To make sure your backups are in order, you may want to review on the
message board http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.eed7c76 (How to Back
Up MC 4.x) and/or "Installation - Backing Up Your Files" in this cookbook
to make sure you have your backups in order.
ValuSoft Install Basics
The MasterCook 7.0 will install into a different folder than other
ValuSoft or Sierra programs on your hard drive, C:\Program
Files\MasterCook 7. Unlike Sierra programs, we are not to install the
ValuSoft programs on top of (in the same folder as) an existing MasterCook
MC 5/6.0/6.2 program. (You can combine the content of prior installations
in a separate step, see below.)
Basic Install Guidelines
Exit all running programs. Make sure that your antivirus program is NOT
enabled. (Sometimes, you can do this by right-clicking the program's icon
in your systray and choosing from a menu; other times you will need to
open the antivirus program and disable it from a menu there.) Also check
to see that Norton's CrashGuard, First Aid, and similar programs are NOT
enabled. Many people have had corrupt installations of MasterCook because
antivirus or crash guard programs were left running during installation.
You can (and should) double-check to see what programs are running by
pressing ctrl-alt-del on your computer. If you can find out, perhaps from
your computer manufacturer, which programs you can safely end task on at
this stage, you should. During the installation process, many programs ask
you to shut down extra programs that load when your computer starts up. It
makes sense to try and identify those you can live without and still
maintain basic functions (like mouse drivers). Do NOT End Task on Explorer
or Systray.
Install the MC 7.0 program by inserting the CD in the drive and following
the instructions that appear on the screen. Note that you should use the
default installation folder for the install (C:\Program Files\MasterCook)
if you intend to use the ValuSoft Merge Tool.
Important Note re VBS File Warning: During The installation you may
receive a warning from your antivirus program about a "malicious script."
The File identified will be C:\Program Files\MasterCook 7\MC
Tools\MasterCook Tools.vbs. You should authorize this script. You are
receiving the warning because some viruses use vbs scripts to spread
damage. However, this file is what will allow you to merge other
MasterCook products into your MC 7.0 after it is installed. You ONLY need
to use this tool if you have an Ingredient List you would like to
merge/convert, or if you have tips from a previous MC 5/6.x title you
would like to merge.
Restart your computer.
To add saved cookbooks or cookbooks/collections from prior versions, see
"Installation - Version 7.0 (ValuSoft) Adding/Restoring Cookbooks, Menus,
Meal Plans and/or Collection Folders" in this cookbook.
To merge/convert Ingredient Lists from prior versions, see "Installation -
Version 7.0 (ValuSoft) Merging Ingredient Lists and Tips" in this
cookbook.
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MC 5/6.x/7.x Cookbooks
Perform these steps with MasterCook closed.
If you are adding/restoring your own cookbook files from MC 5/6.x that you
backed up yourself and if you want them to be contained in the My
Collection folder, simply copy them from their backup location to the My
Collection folder in MasterCook 7. You should also copy/paste in any
backed-up copies of menus (*.mnu) or meal plans (*.pln).
If they were backed up on a CD, remove the read-only attribute. SELECT ALL
the files and choose PROPERTIES from the File menu in Windows Explorer,
remove the checkmark for READ-ONLY, and place a checkmark in the box for
Archive. (If you leave the setting read-only you will not be able to make
changes to these files while using program.)
Then open MC and, from the cookbook browser window, where all your
cookbook names are listed, press F5 to refresh your file list. Your
cookbooks will now be available to you.
MC 4/3/2 Cookbooks
If the cookbooks you would like to add are from MasterCook 4/3/2, OPEN
MasterCook 7. Then from the main menu at the top of the screen, choose
FILE > OPEN. You will be asked if you want to create a new cookbook. MC
will make its own copy of the cookbook, leaving the original book
untouched. If you are converting a lot of cookbooks, you should keep the
MC 7 copy backed up, even if you do not intend to revise it, to save time
if you need to restore it later on.
NOTE: Cookbooks from MC 1 need to be converted to MC 2 format (opened into
MC 2); then the resulting MC 2 cookbook can be converted as any other MC
2/3/4 cookbook.
MC 5/6.x Cookbooks/Collections from Other Titles, or Adding a Collection
Use Windows Explorer to create a collection folder for each of your other
products (such as Food & Wine, Cooking Light) or your own cookbooks. For
example: C:\Cookbooks\Food & Wine Collection and C:\Cookbooks\Suzy's
Collection. Or you could create the folders inside the MasterCook 7
folder, such as C:\Program Files\MasterCook 7\Suzy's Collection. (You can
name the folder what you wish and put them where you wish. You don't even
have to use the word "collection" in the title.)
Manually copy the cookbook files, cookbook picture files and menus to the
collection folder(s) you created in the previous step. With the Food &
Wine CD inserted into your CD drive (assuming it is assigned to the letter
D) you will find the cookbook (*.mc2) and picture files (*.mcx) located
here: D:\system\cookbooks. You will find the menu files (*.mnu) located
here: D:\system\menus. Copy/paste all the *.mc2, *.mcx, and *.mnu files to
the collection folders you created in the previous step. If you are adding
a new collection folder for your own files, include your menu files and
meal plans (*.pln) as well.
Remove the read-only attribute from all the files that were on a CD, even
your own backup copies. After they are pasted into the folder you created
in step #1 above, SELECT ALL the files and choose PROPERTIES from the File
menu in Windows Explorer, remove the checkmark for READ-ONLY, and place a
checkmark in the box for Archive. (If you leave the setting read-only you
will not be able to make changes to these files while using program.)
Now you can launch the MC 7.0 program and use the Collection Manager to
ADD the collection folder to your MasterCook program. Launch MasterCook
and choose MANAGE COLLECTIONS from the Tools menu. Navigate to the
collection folder you created in step #1 above, highlight it and select
the ADD button. Now that folder will be registered with MasterCook, and
the content will be available to you inside the program. Do this for each
collection folder you added. (From now on MasterCook will check these
folders to see what you added/removed outside the program when you press
F5 or select Tools > Refresh File List.)
Perform the same steps using your v5.x or v6.0 Cooking Light CD. If you
are using v6.0 you will also find search index files (*.mcz) to copy over
for each cookbook.
For Information on merging Ingredient Lists and Tips, see "Installation -
Version 7.0 (ValuSoft) Merging Ingredient Lists and Tips" in this
cookbook.
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Activate the Merge Tool
If you have a personalized Ingredient List from an MC 6.x/5/4 program that
you would like to merge, or if you have tips from a previous MC 5/6.x
title you would like to merge, you will need to activate the Merge Tool.
NOTE: Perform the following with your MasterCook program closed and virus
scanner disabled.
Use Windows Explorer or My Computer to go to your MC Tools folder
(C:\Program Files\MasterCook\ 7\MC Tools). Make sure your antivirus is
disabled.
Execute the file MasterCook Tools.vbs by double-clicking on it. Then
restart your computer so the Merge Tool will be available to you.
IF you are RE-installing your MasterCook, you will need to execute the
file again by double-clicking on it and restarting your computer. If you
do not do this, you will still see the options on your right-click menu,
but clicking them will not do anything. You need to double-click the
MasterCook Tools.vbs file again so the choices will become active.
>> When you use the Merge Tool, close MasterCook and disable your virus
scanner. <<
>> When you use the Merge Tool, make sure the file you are merging is on
your hard drive and does NOT have a read-only attribute. (Copy the file(s)
to a spare folder on your HD, highlight all of them, right-click, and
remove the checkmark from read-only; add a checkmark by archive.) <<
To merge MC 5/6.x Ingredient Files
1. Using Windows Explorer, locate your backed up copy of the v5/6 ING file
(MC Ingredients.ing).
2. Right click on the MC Ingredients.ing file and choose MERGE MASTERCOOK
INGREDIENTS from the pop-up menu. If you have edited ingredients that were
in the original Ingredient List (such as by adding prices or changing the
nutritional values), you will receive a message that there is a duplicate
ingredient and you will be asked what to do. Answer NO or NO TO ALL to
keep your edited version of the ingredient. If you select "Yes", the
existing ingredient in your MC 7 Ingredient File will be used.
Now your v5/6 ING file is merged with the v6.2 one. (Keep this file backed
up from now on.)
To convert MC 4 user.ing Files
1. The user.ing file contains ingredients that you have added from the
ground up, not those that you have revised or added prices to. It is the
ONLY ing file that can be converted. Using Windows Explorer, locate your
backed up copy of the v4 user.ing file.
2. Then right-click the file name and choose CONVERT MASTERCOOK 4.X
INGREDIENTS from the pop-up menu.
Ingredient Lists from MC 1/2/3
The user.ing files from MC 2/3 can only be converted if they are first
converted to MC 4 format; then the amended MC 4 user.ing file can be
converted as described above. [To convert to MC 4 format, place the
user.ing file from the MC 2/3 installation in the MC 4 directory
(C:\SIERRA\MCOOK4, C:\SIERRA\CKLT4, etc.), then reopen MC 4.] The user.ing
files from MC 1 can be converted to MC 2 format only by installing MC 2 on
top of MC 1; the resulting MC 2 user.ing must then be converted to MC 4
version, as above.
Merging Tips from Other MC 5/6.x Titles
If you still have the other MC 5/6.x title installed on your computer, you
can skip to step 4.
1. Use Windows Explorer navigate to the D:\system\Tools folder on, for
example, the Food & Wine CD.
2. Copy these two files to a temporary folder on your computer:
MC Tips.mtf
MC Tips.mcx
3. Remove the read-only settings from these files. (Right click on them
and choose PROPERTIES. Remove the checkmark from the read-only box.) This
step is important.
4. Right click on that MC Tips.mtf file and choose MERGE MASTERCOOK TIPS
from the pop-up menu. It will add the Food & Wine tips to your program.
You can verify this by checking the MasterList after launching the
program.
5. You can now safely delete both files (MC Tips.mtf and MC Tips.mcx) you
copied to your computer.
6. Perform the same steps using your v5.x or v6.0 Cooking Light CD.
For information on adding/restoring cookbooks, menus and meal plans, see
"Installation - Version 7.0 (ValuSoft) Adding/Restoring Cookbooks, Menus,
Meal Plans and/or Collection Folders" in this cookbook.
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Installation - Windows 2000/XP
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We've heard from quite a number of people who have installed MasterCook
(various versions) on their XP computers and have reported that the
program works just fine. One key to success is to be sure to install your
program as set out in the Cooking Forum's FAQ and Tips folder for your
version. Be sure to turn off ANTIVIRUS and other running programs. Be sure
to say NO when the MasterCook 4 installer asks to do a system test.
Installing
There are some general tips on installing programs on XP here:
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.ef526f6
That discussion includes tips on installing older 16 bit programs and
those that require 256-color and/or 640x480 resolution support enabled,
such as MasterCook 4 and below.
Additional tips on compatibility issues in installing are found in these
discussions/articles:
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.ef49fd1
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/planning/appcompat/default
asp
Post-install issues
IF, after following the instructions above, you are still having problems
with running your program, first make sure that you are NOT using a
"Limited User Account."
For more information, see http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.ef3d7ed
IF you still have a problem and you are using MasterCook 6 you should
consider obtaining and applying the Windows XP Application Compatibility
Update available from Microsoft. MS describes it as "a package of software
updates that address common application issues, helping Windows XP either
to support these applications or helping to avoid common issues users may
experience with these applications" [including MasterCook Suite 6.0
(Sierra On-Line, Inc.)].
For more information on the compatibility update from MS, see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q308381
Printing
IF you have problems printing, be sure you have installed a local printer
on the machine you are trying to print from, whether or not a printer is
physically attached to that machine, and select it as the default printer
before attempting to print. See
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.eeca2be
IF you have problems printing, be sure you have obtained and installed XP
drivers from your printer manufacturer. The drivers that install
automatically with XP may not support anything but basic printing. Without
the proper drivers, you may not be able to edit your print design or print
the way you like. Some printer manufacturers have stated that drivers for
Win 2000 are appropriate for using in XP, so you may want to try
installing those drivers. But your printer manufacturer is where you need
to go for that information.
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Win Me is not listed on the box as a supported platform for MasterCook
6.0. We contacted Tech Support, and their official stance is that they
"will certainly try to troubleshoot any issues you may have with
techniques we know work in Windows 95 or 98." But, because MasterCook 6.0
has not been "officially tested" with Win Me, they cannot go beyond that,
to specific issues involving drivers, for example. So they are definitely
willing to work with you.
One of Sierra's volunteer moderators is using Win Me and MasterCook
together fine, and others have reported that was their experience, too.
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Q. Has anyone successfully used MasterCook 3 or later with NT 4.0?
MasterCook II works just fine, but I've had trouble getting MasterCook
version 3 to work (keep getting GPF errors).
A. Yes, MasterCook 5.0 was compiled on NT, but the only bad point is that
Tech Support won't support MasterCook on NT platforms, so it is all up to
the user to diagnose problems. It works fine with the exception of the
icon coloring in Windows Explorer - for some weird reason the icons look a
little garbled on NT. You also need to set up a local printer. See this
recipe for more info: Printing - Windows NT.
Update -- A Win NT 4.0 (SP5/SP6) user states the icons look garbled with
MasterCook 5.0; however, after updating to MasterCook 5.05 they look much
better. MasterCook 6.x works/looks great as well.
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MasterList - How to Use It
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Q. Yesterday I tried moving recipes from my temporary cookbook into their
final destination cookbooks. I went to MasterList, went down to my
temporary cookbook, highlighted the recipe, then tried to drag it over to
the new cookbook. Nothing!
Now if I go to the individual cookbook, select the recipe and copy it,
then open the new cookbook and paste, all goes well (it even takes the
category along). But shouldn't I be able to do this in MasterList?
How I drag and drop in MasterList:
A. I drag and drop using 2 MasterLists. I can get this to work for me. I
can highlight a recipe from one cookbook. Open up another MasterList and
click on the category I want to drag it into. Then I can drag the recipe
into the right side pane of the other MasterList. It will bring over the
categories it previously had and will put it into the category I dropped
it into. Adding categories to a recipe is supported by dragging a recipe
from the right-pane of MasterList to the right-pane of another opened
MasterList.
A. You can do the same from the cookbook to the MasterList - the trick is
expand the outline (or MasterList) until the category you want is open and
showing it's recipes in the right panel of the MasterList. Then you can
drag and drop a recipe from a book into the category of the other book
using the MasterList.
A. We can also do it -- and this is much faster -- from the MasterList to
an open cookbook. Drag into the recipe title window.
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Q: I want to change the servings for a meal on the Meal Planning Calendar.
I don't create menus for ever meal I put on the calendar. Otherwise, I
would end up with sixty-million menus for every day of the year. I just
put recipes on the calendar. I like the fact that you don't have to save
all the meal plans and that the recipes will be purged after a set number
of days. Anyway, as you know on all the meals on the calendar the serving
is set to 1. When you add a recipe to that meal it is automatically scaled
to 1 serving. What I was wanting to do was change the serving size of the
meal. Is there a way of doing this?
A: 1. If you want the recipes to serve the number originally in the
recipe: select each recipe individually, right click to get the pop-up
menu, select "Set Servings", change the servings of "1" to the value from
the original recipe (it's shown in the pop-up)
2. If you want an entire meal (like Dinner) scaled to the same value:
select the meal (like the line dinner) which selects all the recipes under
that meal, right click to get the pop-up menu, select "Set Servings",
change the servings to what you want. I think this also works for an
selecting an entire day.
3. If you want the entire week scaled to the same thing: select the first
day, scroll to the bottom and do a SHIFT-LEFT-MOUSE-CLICK which selects
everything, right click to get the pop-up menu, select "Set Servings",
change the servings to what you want.
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Categories : Meal Plans
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Open MasterCook, then click on Meals, I then click on the Calendar the
Sunday of the Week that I am planning the Menus, I am going to give you my
Menu for today. When you click on the Calendar a form pops up on the right
hand side that says date, also has sections for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
So under Breakfast you would type each food you wish to have, enter and
then a box will appear asking for the ingredient amount, i.e.: I typed in
Apple Juice and in the ingredient amount box I typed 1/2 cup in the amount
and tabbed to the Unit and typed cup and pressed okay. (Sometimes I find
that the amount and unit box fails to pop up as it should and I click the
product until it does. Repeat for Lunch and Dinner. While you are typing
the individual meals if you highlight and hit the heart on the right you
will get the nutritional info for that meal, and high the whole thing when
you like myself try to see what the WW Points are. Below is an example.
Breakfast:
1/2 cup Apple Juice
3/4 cup Raisin Bran
1/2 cup 1% low-fat milk
1 cup coffee
2 tablespoons Light Cream
(Per serving (excluding unknown items): 288 calories 8g Fat (23.2%
calories from fat); 9g Protein, 50g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; 25mg
Cholesterol; 351mg Sodium
Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain (Starch); 1 Fruit; 1/2 Non-Fat Milk; 1 1/2 Fat: 0
other Carbohydrates
Lunch:
Black Bean-Orzo Salad (5 Points) (right click on you mouse click on the
Recipe and it will go to your cookbooks to find the recipe when you click
on it will print it and if the recipe is too big you can size it in this
case it originally for 6 servings at the far right of the line the recipe
is on is the # of servings click on it and you can change this amount to 2
in my case)
1 whole peach
1 cup Yogurt with fruit, nonfat, artificial sweetener (Peach or
Peach/Mango flavour) {right click on the mouse and click the text button}
1 cup tea
1/2 cup 1% low-fat milk
(Cut peach into bite-size pieces and add to yogurt and serve as dessert)
{right click on the mouse and click the text button}
Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 629 calories; 8g Fat (10.8%
calories from fat); 36g Protein; 109g Carbohydrate; 16g Dietary Fiber; 8mg
Cholesterol; 314mg Sodium.
Exchanges: 3 1/2 Grains (Starch); 1 Lean Meat; 1/2 Vegetable; 1/2 Fruit; 2
Non-Fat Milk; 1 Fat; 1 Other Carbohydrates
Dinner:
Dennis's Cream of Vegetable Soup (1 Point) (I changed servings to 2)
Oriental Chicken Stir-Fry (6.5 - 7 Points) (Same as above changed servings
to 2)
1/2 large Sliced Tomatoes
3 Lettuce Leaves
8 Cucumber slices
Rhubarb Sauce (0 Points)
1 cup Tea
1/8 cup 1% low-fat milk
Per Serving (excluding unknown items); 584 calories; 11g Fat (15.4%
calories from fat); 67g Protein; 68g Carbohydrate; 14g Dietary Fiber;
101mg Cholesterol; 1346mg Sodium.
Exchanges: 1/2 Grain (Starch) 6 1/2 Lean Meat; 6 Vegetable; 1/2 Fruit; 1/2
Non-Fat Milk; 1 1/2 Fat; 1 Other Carbohydrates.
NOTES: You have to make sure that the recipes you are using are in
MasterCook properly, this is that are no unknown items that will in fact
affect the calories, fat, fiber etc, i.e.: just typing in say a cut of
meat that is not know in MasterCook therefore this items will not be
included in the nutritional values.
When we print the above the recipes are also printed, which is super. If
you do not desire a shopping list when you go to print, on the print
screen box you have a choice to check the shopping list that you do not
want to print one.
To get the daily amount, highlight the 3 meals, and then click on the
heart button on the right hand side. For the above it is Calories (kcal):
1501 (I am trying to follow at 1500-1600 diet as per my Diabetic Doctor)
% Calories from Fat 15.1
% Calories from Carbohydrates 58.8%
% Calories from Protein 28.1%
Total Fat 27g, Cholesterol 134mg, Total Carbohydrate 227g, Dietary Fiber
34g, Sodium 2011g Potassium 9964mg
WW Points: C: 1501, F: 27g, DF 34g = 25 points (I try to stay with 25 - 28
Points)
Food Exchanges; Starch 5, Lean Meat 7 1/2; Vegetable 7; Fruit 2 1/2;
Non-Fat Milk: 2 1/2 Fat 4, Other Carbohydrates 2. (except I had 1 1/2 too
much protein is perfect for my Diabetic diet)
So you see this Meal section of MasterCook is excellent to help those like
myself who is trying to keep fat and carbos lower.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Arranging Windows' Windows
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Miscellaneous
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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If you have many windows open and it's all a-clutter, and some windows are
pushed off center-screen so that you cannot see the title bar, Windows'
task bar can help restore things.
1) Right click a blank space on the task bar and select one of the
options:
a) Minimize all. Then open the window you want from the task bar.
b) Cascade all windows.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Changing MasterCook's Looks
Recipe By :
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Categories : Miscellaneous
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Q: I heard there is a way to change the look of MasterCook 5.x/6.x. How do
I do this?
A: There is a file in the MC Tools folder called MC Branding.mbf. If you
have more than one MasterCook 5.x or 6.x title, you can change the MC
Branding.mbf file. This file gives MasterCook the watermarks throughout,
the Contents screen, as well as the screen that is showing while
MasterCook is loading. You can copy the MC Branding.mbf file off the CD of
your choice and replace it with the one on your computer. For example, if
you currently have the Betty Crocker look and would rather have the look
of Cooking Light, you can copy the MC Branding.mbf file from the Cooking
Light CD and replace the MC Branding.mbf file inside the MC Tools folder
on your computer.
Do you want a holiday look for your MasterCook 5.x or 6.x program? The
holiday branding file is available from here:
ftp://ftp2.sierra.com/pub/goodies/pc/HolidayUpdate.exe
The HolidayUpdate.exe file on Sierra's site is an installation file and
will install the MC Branding.mbf file into the MC TOOLS folder for you.
(Please review the instructions during the installation.) It will work if
you have a single installation of SierraHome's MasterCook version 5.x or
6.0 (only one MC TOOLS folder on your computer).
However, if you have more than one installation of versions 5.x/6.x, the
installer (HolidayUpdate.exe file from Sierra's site) won't let you choose
which directory to install into. If you let it install into your version
5.0 MC TOOLS folder, then you could copy the MC BRANDING.MBF file to a
selected version 6.x MC TOOLS folder.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Cleaning Empty Categories From All Cookbooks
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Miscellaneous
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: When I do a search on categories, I see many categories that were
previously deleted in the list that don't have any recipes. How do I get
rid of them?
A: Refresh your file list by hitting the F5 key on your keyboard or by
selecting Refresh File List from the Tools menu.
You can remove empty categories by deleting a recipe from a cookbook. When
you do this you will be prompted to delete any empty categories in this
cookbook.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Communities and Links For Things MasterCook
Recipe By :
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Q. Where can I get more information about MasterCook?
A. Here are a few links and lists that offer help.
MasterCook Message Board:
http://community.vugames.com/WebX?14@@.ee741bb
Pat's MasterCook Resource Network:
http://home.earthlink.net/~kitpath/
Pam's MasterCook 5.0/6.0 Help Site:
http://mc6help.tripod.com/
Sierra's Knowledge Base
http://www.sierra.com/support/techsupport.php
ValuSoft's Technical Support Web Site
http://www.valusoftsupport.com/
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Copying Files Off of the CD
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Miscellaneous
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Depending on your operating system you may find that files copied from a
CD have their properties altered. After you have copied any file off the
CD please make sure that you right click on the file you copied over and
change the property from READ ONLY (indicated by a check mark). Having a
read only ingredient list can cause a lot of problems within MasterCook.
You do NOT need to have a checkmark in Archive.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Easter Egg
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Miscellaneous
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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We have recently learned of an Easter Egg in MasterCook! Look for it in
version 5.x or version 6.x. (Surely you have heard of Easter Eggs in other
programs? If not, go use your favorite search engine and search the
Internet and try to find some Easter Eggs for other programs you use --
Word, Excel, etc.)
What can I do with it?
Well, you know since the beginning of time how we wanted to remove the
nutritional summary from printing in the meal plans with versions 5.x/6.x,
but we can't because we are NOT allowed to edit the print design for meal
plans? This Easter Egg gives us a backdoor into editing that design.
Yippee!!
URGENT WARNING: Please use caution! I will NOT be responsible for any
problems you encounter while playing with this toy nor will I claim to be
able to help you out if you get stuck!! You are own your own! Since this
is an Easter Egg and not part of the program that has even been mentioned
before you are entering UNKNOWN TERRITORY. Tech Support will NOT! be able
to help you, so don't even try that route. I recently learned of this
myself, so you can bet you would learn more by exploring on your own. As
always, it is a GREAT idea to back up your important MasterCook files
(cookbooks, designs, etc.) before playing. If you get in a tangle, you
could always uninstall/reinstall the program. If you accidentally save
over the top of a design that came with the program you can get the
original by copying it off the CD, etc. If all else fails, post a message
on the board and maybe another user has figured it out and will reply
back.
However, I will share with you how I figured out a way to edit a meal
plan. See below. (Please don't attempt this unless you are really familiar
with this program and know how to edit a print design.)
1. Launch the program and get to the Edit Print Design screen. (If you
don't know how to get this far, you might want to play with the program a
bit more and gain some more experience before continuing.)
2. Select a text box (for example, the recipe title) and then use
Ctrl+Shift+Right Click to find an Easter Egg pop-up menu. Yahoo!!
3. Select Edit Item... from the pop-up menu. (Hmm...there are some other
interesting things to choose from this menu. I'll try those later.)
4. Type in this Four Byte Code: "MDay" without the quotes and press OK.
5. You are now able to edit the Meal Plan design. Right-click on the
nutritional summary and choose to hide it.
6. Save your design by a new name (use Save Design As from the File menu)
so that you don't overwrite the existing design.
7. Now use this design the next time you want to print a meal plan, and
the nutritional summary will be left out.
You can take it further from there. Try using the Page tab of the Palette
and making your meal plan print in two columns, etc.
Have fun and please be sure to share with the rest of us anything fun and
new you discover!!! Maybe you will be able to assist others who need help.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - MasterCook 5 (SierraHome) Titles
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Miscellaneous
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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There are five MasterCook version 5 titles: MasterCook Deluxe, The
Complete MasterCook Suite Featuring Betty Crocker (which includes
MasterCook Deluxe), MasterCook Cooking Light, MasterCook Food & Wine, and
The Best of MasterCook. All of these contain the same engine and work the
same way. Only the cookbooks, tips, menus and meal plans are different
from title to title. If you install more than one title, it will merge
them together.
MasterCook will convert cookbooks from older versions of MasterCook very
easily.
MasterCook Deluxe includes 21 cookbooks (titles listed below) with 5,000
recipes.
The Complete MasterCook Suite Featuring Betty Crocker includes 4 cookbooks
(titles listed below) plus the 21 cookbooks from MasterCook Deluxe for a
total of over 6,000 recipes.
MasterCook Cooking Light includes 3 cookbooks (titles listed below) with
over 1,400 recipes.
MasterCook Food & Wine includes 7 cookbooks (titles listed below) with
over 1,000 recipes.
The Best of MasterCook includes:
(a) All of the cookbooks from MasterCook Deluxe plus one new one: Happy
Hour
(b) All of the cookbooks from The Complete MasterCook Suite Featuring
Betty Crocker plus two new ones: Great Grilling and Best Loved Recipes
(c) All of the cookbooks from Cooking Light plus two new ones: Cooking
Light '92-'94 and Cooking Light '95-'96
(d) Total recipe count: 10106. Total tip count: 2227
MasterCook Deluxe Collection:
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Casual Dining
Cooking with Gadgets
Delicious Desserts
Deluxe Appetizers
Deluxe Bake it
Deluxe Bartender's Guide
Entertain!
Fabulous & Flavorful
Family Favorites
Famous American Chefs
Hot Off the Grill
International Classics
Kid Approved
Kitchen Classics
Meat Lovers
Morning Meals
Quick Fix
The Art of Bread
The Weekend Gourmet
Vegetarian Favorites
What to Fix for Dinner
Betty Crocker Collection:
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Best of Baking
Best of Healthy and Hearty Cooking
Cookie Book
Cooking Basics
Food & Wine Collection:
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America's Best Chefs
Food & Wine Magazine
Quick From Scratch Herbs & Spices
Quick From Scratch Soups & Salads
Quick From Scratch Vegetable Main Dishes
Simply Elegant
Soups & Stews
Cooking Light Collection:
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Cooking Light '96
Cooking Light '97
Cooking Light '98
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - MasterCook 5/6 Fields Are Longer
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Miscellaneous
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Q. How much longer are the fields in MasterCook 5.x/6.x?
A. Here's a comparison chart - empirical estimates!
++++++++++___MC v2,3,4+++++__MC5/6+++++
Title: 59 255
Author: 59 255
Category: 30 30
Ingredient: 42 255
Preparation: 22 255
Wine: 59 60
Serve Ideas: 59 255
NOTES : 998 1000
estimated by pasting 1234567890
This information is in the help file, and in appendix A of the MasterCook
6 manual.
Field (Characters)
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Title (255)
Description (255)
Amount (10)
Unit (25)
Ingredient (255)
Preparation Method (255)
Directions (10,000)
Notes (6,000)
Author (255)
Copyright (255)
Source (255)
Alt Source (255)
Suggested Wine (132)
Serving Ideas (6,000)
Custom Times (Name) (31)
Prep Time (5)
Total Time (5)
Custom Time (5)
Other Capabilities/Limitations:
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Maximum collections in program (No Limit)
Maximum number of cookbooks in program (No Limit)
Maximum number of categories per cookbook (No Limit)
Maximum number of recipes per cookbook (12,000)
Maximum ingredients per recipe (No Limit)
Maximum number of servings in recipe (9999)
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - MasterCook 6 (SierraHome) à la Carte Titles
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
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For those who have been wanting to try MasterCook 6 AND have a Sam's Club
store nearby, there is a FREE copy of MasterCook à la Carte The Cooking
Light Collection bundled with a three-flavor pack of Crystal Light
fruitade mix ($6.99 at my Sam's). This offer is only available at Sam's
Clubs. This offer may also be found at BJ's (on the East Coast) as well as
at Sam's Clubs.
This is NOT a full-featured version. You can view the cookbook recipes
(200+ included), search, and perform many other functions, but you cannot
add your personal recipes to the program.
You CAN, however, directly download recipes from the Sierra Recipe Library
into the My Cookbook included. Neat feature!
********* UPDATE: The MasterCook.com web site no longer exists. *********
This comes from the readme.txt file on the Crystal Light CD:
[QUOTE]
ADDING RECIPES TO "MY COOKBOOK" FROM MASTERCOOK.COM
The MasterCook.com cookbook has been included in your MasterCook a la
Carte software so that you can add to your library recipes from
www.mastercook.com. MasterCook.com houses thousands of recipes in
MasterCook format that you can add to your program in a few easy steps.
Your Mastercook.com cookbook will collect all the recipes that you add and
you will have easy access to them with the click of your mouse. Begin
collecting recipes today to customize your program through
www.mastercook.com.
Directions for Downloading
a) Select the MasterCook Web Site icon from the toolbar.
b) At MasterCook.com, select a recipe or cookbook.
c) Click DOWNLOAD.
d) Select OPEN THIS FILE FROM ITS CURRENT LOCATION, then click OK.
e) Recipes will automatically be added to "My Cookbook".
NOTE: If you have IE 5.0 or higher, a second FILE DOWNLOAD window may
appear. Select OPEN THIS FILE FROM ITS CURRENT LOCATION, then click OK.
[END QUOTE]
There is also another "viewer" version called MasterCook à la Carte
presents Prevention's the Healthy Cook. I was at Office Max on June 4,
2001 and saw it on the shelf for $9.99. Great buy! It was in a jewel case
only and didn't contain a manual. However, the PDF file (electronic
manual) is included on the CD.
Someone else posted on the message board in May 2001 that they saw it at
Barnes and Noble. At B&N it was available in a small box (about the size
of the Prevention magazine) for $14.95. It was spotted at Barnes and Noble
on a shelf near the cooking magazines.
Here's the scoop...
This is version 6.01.81. It is a "viewer" version (read: it is missing
some functionality of v6.0), so you cannot edit the recipes or check
spelling, etc. However, most of the functionality from the navigation bar
along the bottom (Search, Shopping, Favorites, etc.) works.
The product contains 2 cookbooks: My Cookbook and Prevention's The Healthy
Cook. Prevention's The Healthy Cook contains 493 recipes -- about 65
contain recipe pictures.
The My Cookbook included with this product has a "recipe" which explains
how to import recipes from MasterCook.com:
[START]
Notes: Directions for Downloading:
1. Select the MasterCook Web Site icon from the toolbar.
2. At MasterCook.com, select a recipe or cookbook.
3. Click DOWNLOAD.
4. Select OPEN THIS FILE FROM ITS CURRENT LOCATION, then click OK.
5. Recipes will automatically be added to "My Cookbook".
NOTE: If you have IE 5.0 or higher, a second FILE DOWNLOAD window may
appear. Select OPEN THIS FILE FROM ITS CURRENT LOCATION, then click OK.
The MasterCook.com cookbook has been included in your MasterCook a la
Carte software so that you can add to your library recipes from
www.mastercook.com. MasterCook.com houses thousands of recipes in
MasterCook format that you can add to your program in a few easy steps.
Your Mastercook.com cookbook will collect all the recipes that you add and
you will have easy access to them with the click of your mouse. Begin
collecting recipes today to customize your program through
www.mastercook.com.
MasterCook.com is devoted to providing quality culinary content. Whether
you are just beginning to experiment in your kitchen or are a seasoned
chef, you’ll find a wealth of helpful information. New daily, weekly, and
monthly features include tips on what's in season and articles like
"Cooking for One" and "Making Baby Food." Weekly menus and daily featured
recipes make planning meals a cinch, while the ever-expanding Recipe
Library provides more than 7,000 recipes for you to explore. You can also
enjoy the camaraderie of the MasterCook Community, where users post
questions and exchange tips and techniques specific to their needs. So
explore MasterCook.com and discover the resourceful art of interactive
cooking!
There are many benefits to upgrading to a premium version of MasterCook.
1. Import recipes from your favorite Web sites with our Import Assistant.
2. Thousands of high quality recipes in our many different versions.
3. Export recipes to friends via email or post them on your own website.
4. Save your recipe edits and scaling for future use.
5. Create and customize your own cookbooks
For more information go to www.MasterCook.com or call 1-800-757-7707
[END]
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - MasterCook 6.0 (SierraHome) Titles
Recipe By :
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SierraHome released three MasterCook version 6.0 titles: MasterCook
Deluxe; MasterCook, The Complete Suite 6.0 Featuring Betty Crocker (which
includes MasterCook Deluxe); and MasterCook Cooking Light. All of these
contain the same engine and work the same way. Only the cookbooks, tips,
menus and meal plans are different from title to title. If you install
more than one title, it will merge them together.
MasterCook 6.0 will read version 5.x cookbooks and convert cookbooks from
earlier versions of MasterCook very easily.
MasterCook Deluxe 6.0 includes 15 cookbooks (titles listed below) with
4,500+ recipes.
MasterCook, The Complete Suite 6.0 Featuring Betty Crocker includes 10
cookbooks (titles listed below) plus the 15 cookbooks from MasterCook
Deluxe 6.0 for a total of over 6,500 recipes.
MasterCook Cooking Light 6.0 includes 6 cookbooks (titles listed below)
with 3,000 recipes.
MasterCook Deluxe 6.0 Collection:
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Casual Dining
Cooking with Gadgets
Delicious Desserts
Deluxe Appetizers
Happy Hour
Hot Off the Grill
International Classics
Kid Approved
Mealtime
Meat Lovers
Morning Meals
Quick Fix
The Art of Bread
The Weekend Gourmet
Vegetarian Favorites
Betty Crocker 6.0 Collection:
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About Betty Crocker — Your Best Friend in the Kitchen
Betty Crocker's Best Christmas Cookbook
Betty Crocker's Best of Baking
Betty Crocker's Best of Healthy and Hearty Cooking
Betty Crocker's Best-Loved Recipes
Betty Crocker's Cookie Book
Betty Crocker's Cooking Basics
Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cookbook
Betty Crocker's Great Grilling
Betty Crocker's Healthy New Choices
Cooking Light 6.0 Collection:
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Cooking Light '92-'94
Cooking Light '95-'96
Cooking Light '96
Cooking Light '97
Cooking Light '98
Cooking Light Holidays
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - MasterCook Yucky Color
Recipe By :
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Q. How do I change MasterCook's color. It's Green-yellow-yucky color.
A. The colors you see depend on the video driver. To find out how your
Display is setup, use the Control Panel: Display.
There are several tabs to explore to see how things are configured. The
Settings tab will tell you if windows is using a generic driver or the one
designed for your monitor. You can select the right video as an "advanced"
option.
You may be able to adjust the colors. click "advanced" and the "color"
tab.
MasterCook 5 recommends using SVGA 800x600 resolution; small fonts and
High Color (16 bit). If you are currently using 256 colors, try the High
Color (16 bit) settings. You may need to select a different color scheme
to go with the 16-bit color palette.
I have my settings at True Color (32 bit), and it definitely looks much
better than the 16 bit for me. The 16 bit produces this ugly peachy color
for me. However the 32 bit setting gives it more of the tan color that it
is suppose to be that matches the buttons and navigation bar at the
bottom.
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Opening Program Without Restore Previous View
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Do you have Restore Previous View selected in your Preferences but would
like to start the program and go right to the Contents screen?
Hold down the SHIFT key, then doubleclick the icon to launch MasterCook.
That will disable "Restore Previous View" (for that session) and the
program will open to the CONTENTS screen. Note that you will need to
doubleclick the desktop icon, even if you have your settings configured to
otherwise open with a single click.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Other Applications to Use with MC - Buster for MasterCook
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Buster is a Dos-App written by Glen Hosey. It automates most of the
"gross" or global edits that we do over and over again to clean up mailed
recipes and ready them for import into MasterCook.
Go here to get Buster and companion help and quick start files:
http://www.thehoseys.com/
Here are some sites to check out about Buster:
Sooz's Buster Lessons
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/2267/buster.html
Gail's Buster Page
http://www.mctagit.com/mcbuster.htm
Q. Is anyone having a problem of "no recipes found" in Buster because of
the new heading: * Exported from MasterCook*
A. No, not since Glen updated Buster! Download the latest version (2.0J)
of Buster
http://www.thehoseys.com/
Glen was kind enough to modify Buster so it can handle the new * Exported
from MasterCook * heading which doesn't have as many blank spaces as the
older version. I haven't had any problems with Buster not liking the
header against the left margin.
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Other Applications to Use with MC - MC-TagIt
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Gail Shermeyer has created a program to use with MasterCook 5.x/6.x.
MC-TagIt is a utility designed to convert standard recipe export formats
into the new MasterCook XML-tagged import format. If you do not use
MasterCook version 5 or 6, you do not need this utility.
In addition to interpreting MasterCook versions II, 3 and 4 and MealMaster
recipe exports, MC-TagIt also has it's own generic format enabling you to
easily import generic text recipes as a group into MasterCook 5.x/6.x
without going through the Import Assistant one by one.
System and Software Requirements:
Windows 95, 98 or NT.
MasterCook version 5.x/6.x
Text Editor (Such as Note Pad, Word Pad, or Note Tab)
You can go here to get it:
http://www.mctagit.com/MCTagit.htm
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Other Applications to Use with MC - Nuts&Berries for Macintosh
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From Paul:
Finally, I've gotten a moment to finish up what I've been doing.
Nuts&Berries is a freeware Macintosh application that assists in the
importing of recipes into MasterCook (or into whatever application you
like better). It does quite a lot of stuff, including importing MasterCook
5.0 format and converting it to MasterCook 4.0 format, or text. There are
literally dozens of other features.
The documentation isn't where I'd like it; in fact it isn't anywhere. I
just don't have the time right now, and I apologize for that. But, you can
probably muddle through and learn it by running the application and
reading the balloon help. Of course, feel free to ask me questions and/or
report any bugs you find.
Helen Simmons has been a real trouper and tested this thing with me
extensively, so I think it's pretty stable. It seems to work with system
7.1 on up. But, no doubt some things will need to be fixed.
You can get it at:
http://www.macinsearch.com/users/pjw/
I made Nuts&Berries to help Mac users, and I hope it does that. So, please
let me know how (and if) you like it.
-Paul
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Other Applications to Use with MC - Text-To-MasterCook II Conversion Utility
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The Text-To-MasterCook II Conversion utility is a shareware program
designed to be used with MasterCook II. MasterCook II is one of the most
popular cooking programs on the market. Text-To-MasterCook is a shareware
utility written in Microsoft's Visual Basic, and is designed to assist the
user in converting a variety of text format recipe files into the
MasterCook II export format for easy import into the MasterCook II
database.
You can download it from here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~kitpath/downlds/txttomc.zip
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Other Applications to Use with MC - Why Use Buster and/or MC-TagIt?
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I've seen several posts asking these questions. As the author of MC-TagIt,
I'll take a stab at answering.
Both of these are utility programs that help to "batch process" recipe
conversion and importing into MasterCook. Both are also for the PC. I
understand that some people are working on a Mac version of Buster (says
it on the web page - that's the extent of my knowledge). MC-TagIt is PC
only.
MC-Buster was written by Glen Hosey and is available at
http://www.thehoseys.com/. I used Buster for years and it is an absolutely
wonderful, well-written program. It reads MasterCook II through MasterCook
4.0 formats, MealMaster and a generic text format and converts them into a
MasterCook MXP import file. It also provides word wrapping for the
directions (that tend to get broken in email), it un-abbreviates
ingredient units, capitalizes recipe titles, removes those odd "=" type
characters that sometimes get added. Buster also allows you to add the
name of the mailing list, name of the poster and date of the posting to
the end of the recipe from the email, allowing you to track where the
recipe came from. I'm sure it does more, but these are the features that I
used mostly. Buster is free for the download and works with all versions
of MasterCook, including MasterCook 5.x/6.x, but it does not support the
new fields nor the longer field lengths, being limited to the MXP import
format of the previous MasterCook versions. Buster runs in DOS but can be
easily set up to run in a DOS window of Win95 or 98.
MC-TagIt was written by myself and has much of the functionality of
MC-Buster, but it does support the new MasterCook 5.x/6.x field and longer
field length. Its output file is a .mx2 XML-tagged format that can be
imported directly into MasterCook 5.x/6.x. Therefore, it is a utility for
MasterCook 5.x/6.x users only. MC-TagIt is a windows program. It is
available for the download from http://www.mctagit.com/MCTagit.htm.
While MasterCook 5.x/6.x does have the Import Assistant, I felt there were
limitations for the "power user". The Import Assistant (at least for me)
works best for one or two recipes at a time. I have never gotten the auto
fill to work where I did not need to move things around and make lots of
corrections. I also did not like the way MasterCook 5.x/6.x assumed that
my old MasterCook 4.0 RECIPE BY: field was the author (when in fact it was
usually the source). MasterCook 5.x/6.x will also import directions only
into the first recipe section. Why have multiple sections if MasterCook
5.x/6.x does not import into them? I saw these limitations and decided to
do something about it, hence MC-TagIt. You can read more about each of
these programs on their respective download site.
I hope this answers the questions. Gail
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Running Videos From the Hard Drive
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Q: I would like to be able to run the videos from the hard drive. Is it
possible?
A: Simply copy the videos anywhere in the MasterCook folder, I would
suggest creating a folder called "videos" and then placing them in there.
Then, go to the MasterCook MC Tools folder on the hard drive and delete
the file called MCWorld.mcw. Now, start the application. Go to Tips and
choose a tip. You will now see a dialog box that tells you that it cannot
find the video but gives you the option to browse for it. Click browse and
navigate to the place on your hard drive where all the videos are. Find
the specific video you want to view and double-click on it. The program
will now register all the video being on the hard drive. To undo this and
go back to viewing from the CD repeat the above process.
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Slow to Load
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One thing you could do to make MasterCook 5.x/6.x load faster is to go to
Edit/Preference and under the General tab, you could remove the checkmark
from the box that says Restore Previous View upon Start-up. This will make
MasterCook load up faster, because it doesn't have to remember where you
were when you last used the program.
So, we have two choices: check it but remember to close with a small
cookbook or uncheck it and start with the content screen.
I just did a test, I searched for "apple pie" as a phrase, in all
available cookbooks. It took 7 minutes and 43 seconds, returned 33 hits,
and I have 41 cookbooks.
Next I did an Advanced search for Apple Pie as a title, it took 6 minutes,
23 seconds.
Finally, I just repeated the search, but this time disabled my McAfee
Virus Shield. That cut the time down to 4 minutes, 12 seconds. I always
have my virus software running on this computer, since I use it for
internet access, email, downloading recipes and the like exclusively. It
never even dawned on me until just now to turn it off when searching.
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Stopping the SierraHome Intro Video
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Q: Is it possible to open MasterCook 5.0 without the musical/video intro?
It was cute for awhile, now I would just like to start the program.
A: Yes, there is a way. Using My Computer or Windows Explorer go into the
C:/SIERRA/MasterCook 5/Program folder and delete this file:
SHomeSplash.avi
Now you will never see it again, and it won't affect your program
whatsoever.
Note: For those of you wondering what we are talking about...this file
(SHomeSplash.avi) is an ad for SierraHome and runs every time you start up
MasterCook unless you delete the file. This AVI file is something that has
been added to the MasterCook 5.03, 5.04 & 5.05 CDs.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Tips To Keep Your Computer Running Well
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Things that I do regularly to keep my machine(s) running well.
1. Regularly purge Temporary Internet Files (TIF) and History. Both
Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator have provisions for this, and if
the files get too big, they WILL slow your machine down, even if it
doesn't crash.
2. Empty the recycle bin regularly. Amazing how much stuff sometimes piles
up there.
3. At least once per week, delete all .tmp files. A quick way to do this
is click Start>Find>Files or Folders, and for a search string, use *.tmp.
This is a wildcard search and will turn up any file with that extension on
the searched drive. They can be deleted from the search results window,
and should Windows be using any of them, you will not be allowed to delete
them.
4. Defrag as often as necessary. I do so each weekend, running from
SafeMode. Even with 6+ and 5+ gig drives, when it is done weekly, and from
SafeMode, it takes less than an hour. Select
Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Defragmenter.
5. Run ScanDisk often also. I usually run this one from MS-DOS, so there
is nothing to write to disk during the scan, causing it to restart.
ScanDisk should NOT be run from SafeMode, but works fines from MS-DOS. If
you have persistent problems, do a surface scan. This takes some time, but
will turn up problems that don't show on a regular scan.
6. Get an antivirus program AND KEEP THE DAT FILES UP TO DATE!!
7. Many people allow much too much to be loaded at startup. Best is to
limit what is loaded at launch to what you KNOW you will use each time you
bring up the machine, and load anything else as required. Then when
finished, close the program. When the machine is running, do a
Ctrl+Alt+Delete and you will see a list of what is currently running on
your machine. Some of these things are required by the Operating System,
but most likely some aren't. If you recognize things you don't need, find
out why they are being loaded. Check Start>Programs>Startup, and if there
is anything in there that you don't want loaded each time, delete the
shortcut. Some programs load at start but are not in the startup folder.
If you have one of these, take a look at the options or preferences within
the program; there may be something checked to load it at the start.
8. One last anti crash item: MEMORY, MEMORY, MEMORY. With today's memory
hog programs, the absolute bare minimum is 32 MB, 64 much preferred and I
love my 128 MB.
9. SURGE SUPPRESSOR! Don't waste your money on one of the $7.95 specials;
this is one thing where you get what you pay for. Go with APC or another
reputable manufacturer who guarantees to fix your machine if it is zapped
while using their product, and spend the $20 to $30 for a good one. Better
still blow $80 and get a UPS; just make sure whatever you get also
protects the phone/modem/cable/DSL hookup line too.
This isn't directly MasterCook related but if your box is broke,
MasterCook ain't gonna run for you! ;))
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - Version Number?
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Q. How do I find out which version of MasterCook I am using?
A. Select About MasterCook from the Help Menu and it will tell you the
current version you are using.
A. You just bought MasterCook. The box says Deluxe, but which Deluxe? The
box says "4" or "5" but how up-to-date is the version vis-a-vis any
patches?
There is a way to find out what version of mastercook you have BEFORE you
install. (You might want to take it back and buy a newer version. Or you
want to avoid installing an old version on top of a new one.)
Load the CD.
1) The disk has a labelname.
2) The disk comes with a file called "version.txt" -- double click it to
open it.
It will say something like this:
Mastercook 5.03: Food & Wine
Version 0503.0001
Install Build: 9/14/99 - 11:26AM
Sierra On-Line, Inc.
TIP: To Bypass AutoPlay when inserting a cd, press and hold the SHIFT key
while inserting, closing the door, and waiting for it to spin up to speed.
Release the SHIFT key, and click MY COMPUTER. Right click the icon for the
CD drive and select OPEN.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - What's New with SierraHome's Version 5.0?
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One of the major differences is the redesign of the User Interface.
There are several new features and new fields. It has a RATINGS field,
COPYRIGHT field, SOURCE field, ALTERNATIVE SOURCE field, and AUTHOR field,
which also have more characters in them. You can choose to Export recipes
in 4.0 format or 5.0 format or both or text only format.
For people who make their own products, you can print your own NUTRITION
FACTS labels.
It supports simple MAPI so you can import files directly into MasterCook
from your e-mail program. You can also send recipes through your e-mail
program.
It reads all the information in ALL the fields as before only some of the
fields were exported.
It has an Import Assistant to easily drag and drop recipes from the web or
other text documents. (This works beautifully!) When importing ingredients
from the Import Assistant, you don't need to import one ingredient at a
time, you can select them all and click Move to Cookbook button which will
paste all ingredients into the Recipe Editor line by line. I really like
Import Assistant!
Longer ingredient fields. Each ingredient row now has a symbol in the
front of it. I is for ingredient, T is for text, S is for subtitle (such
as filling, crust, etc), and R for recipe. These tell MasterCook what to
do when analyzing a recipe for nutritional values.
You can embed a recipe within another. For instance, if you have a cake
recipe with an ingredient listed (which will have the R symbol for recipe
at the start of the ingredient row) as Paul's Chocolate Frosting, you can
now double-click on it, and it will open up the Paul's Chocolate Frosting
recipe.
You can also export embedded recipes.
You can resize the columns by dragging the column to the size you want.
The direction section now has different cells, so you can easily number
each step in the directions and insert your own picture to that step.
You can add your own videos to your recipes.
It can now read many different picture formats such as .bmp, .jpg, .png,
etc.
It has a coupon column in the shopping list.
It has a new pantry feature.
In the shopping list you select the items you NEED to buy rather than
one's you DON'T need to buy as before.
The meal planner no longer limits you to four meals a day.
It comes with several menus already for some good ideas.
When you are viewing the list of your cookbooks, you now see the front
cover rather than the spine of the book. The bookshelf is replaced by a
photo album arrangement of book covers.
It has a new MasterList which is similar to Windows Explorer. It lets you
see how ALL of your MasterCook files are organized and you can drag and
drop such as dragging a recipe to a menu.
We can sort cookbooks by collection.
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
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Miscellaneous - What's New With SierraHome's Version 6.0?
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Extensive on-line help and getting started modeled on Windows 98 help
outline. (The manual and the On-line Help are the same book.)
Indexing of cookbooks results in extremely fast search.
Expanded search is more intuitive, customizable, multiple criteria. Search
by keyword, ingredient, nutritional info. We can see all the criteria we
use for a search in a new "criteria search panel".
Boolean, keyword searches. Conditional searches. Save the search set-ups
for use again later.
Ingredients from MasterCook 4 and MasterCook 5 are merged with MasterCook
6's mastercook.ing file.
Nutrition: Live update - We've always been able to analyze the nutritional
content of our recipes. NOW! get instant feedback when we add or change an
ingredient to a recipe and/or link it.
Unlink embedded recipes to exclude them from the nutritional analysis.
Useful when the embedded recipe is an option.
File import has smarter filters. Much better performance. Fewer crashes
while importing.
Import assistant. Mini-editor with drag and drop. There's also a clean up
macro: flush left, trim unwanted spaces, and join short lines of
directions and notes.
Import Assistant's window can be enlarged; provides a larger space to edit
the pre-recipe.
MasterCook 6's window can be maximized and remembers we have maximum
screen selected. It will not cascade if we open another window, like the
nutrition tab.
NOTE - Moving from version 5 to 6 is a major upgrade, defined as a release
with a different major version number, such as 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc. Patches
that will keep the version current (for example, from 5.03 to 5.05) are
generally free from the web.
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from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - What's New With ValuSoft's Version 6.2?
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SOURCE:http://www.valusoftsupport.com/library/versionnote/MC%206_2%20bug%2
fixes.html
New Functionality:
IMPORT/EXPORT
- Converts embedded (in directions or notes) sequences of five underscores
to five plus signs (better compatibility with text import).
IMPORT ASSISTANT
- Auto-Fill will now report specific name of field containing prior data
and query user for action (append/replace or skip field).
- Handles longer ingredient and prep method data strings.
- Auto-Fill will load double-spaced directions into separate direction
rows.
PRINTING
- In Edit Design, picture item name will now display on picture
placeholder in layout.
TOOLS
- Added multi-line sample field in Find and Replace to provide better
context.
- New check box in Find and Replace to allow Finds to be accent
insensitive.
INGREDIENT LIST (NUTRITION FACTS)
- Calories from Fat field no longer appears to be an editable control.
- Calories from Fat value now derived directly from Total Fat grams.
- Calories from Fat percentage now reflects ratio of Calories from Fat to
Total Calories.
- Calories from Fat value now refreshed on changes to Total Fat.
- Calories from Fat percentage now refreshed on changes to Total Fat or
Total Calories.
BUG FIXES
GLOBAL
- Data typed into FastFill input boxes will now match accented characters
(e.g. GO TO boxes in Browsers).
- FastFill now works with numbers.
- Fewer spurious FastFill mismatches.
- Sorts are now consistent throughout product (particularly with regard to
accented characters and numbers).
- Properly sorts items beginning with any characters prior to "A" or after
"Z" in our sort order (e.g., pipe, brackets, punctuation, accented
characters).
- Corrected numerous areas where characters with alt numbers greater than
127 could cause fatal errors.
- With general preferences set to 'decimal places', values of zero and
trailing zeros are displayed as blanks as they are when in 'common
fractions' mode.
- Recipe text transferred by clipboard will no longer pick up pre-existing
gibberish on clipboard.
MASTERLIST
- Recipe now opens in View selected in Preferences instead of Recipe
Display view.
- Delete command disabled for all items in read-only documents.
RECIPE BROWSER
- Properly sorts items beginning with any characters prior to "A" or after
"Z" in our sort order (e.g., pipe, brackets, punctuation, accented
characters etc.).
- CTRL+A will now select all the text in the GO TO box (also works in
Cookbook Browser).
- Text can now be deleted from GO TO field.
- Recipes with videos will now display with a dstinctive icon in recipe
lists.
RECIPE DISPLAY
- Curly braces no longer cause ingredients or preparation methods to
disappear in Recipe Display view.
- Browsing recipes sorted by Category will follow sorted sequence.
RECIPE EDIT
- Alternate Source Labels can now be removed.
- Alternate Source Label combo list is now re-sorted when a new label is
added to list.
- Letters typed in the first line of the directions cell no longer cause
the line to "bounce".
- Restore Previous View will now return to last recipe created.
- Right-clicking on picture in Directions now allows "cut", "copy", and
"remove".
- Main recipe icture can now be copied and pasted into directions.
- Keystroke navigation improved in the Categories tab (TAB, arrow keys,
etc.).
- "Paste Text As Ingredient" now supports the longer MasterCook 6.2
fields.
- Fewer nuisance "Save Changes?" dialogs.
- Nutrition tab will update immediately when a recipe is embedded.
MENUS/MEAL PLANS
-Meals without recipes no longer display nutrition notes.
-Variety of drag-and-drop issues resolved.
-Meal Plans in Favorites can now have separate meals nutritionally
analyzed.
-Added FastFill support to Units field in Ingredient Amount dialog.
-Actual servings value ppears instead of default value when setting
servings.
- After a menu is deleted, it will be removed from display.
-Names now accept and display backslash characters like any other
alphanumeric character.
-Fewer nuisance "Save Changes?" dialogs.
-Keyboard navigation in list box now includes the ability to type a string
of characters to search for.
IMPORT/EXPORT
- When selecting Import from Import/Export icon while in a recipe,
"Destination" lists currently open cookbook rather than "My Cookbook".
- Blank ingredient row in *.mxp format recipe will no longer cause
subsequent ingredients to import into directions.
- For text-only export, a sequence of five underscores will be converted
to plus signs to prevent loss of data on import.
- On Import, a sequence of five plus signs will be converted to
underscores.
- Using Simple MAPI, inbox will now correctly sort by date.
- Can now cancel out of "Reading Messages" from Inbox.
- Selecting a different "Recipe Titles" radio button no longer clears the
check from "Use Simple MAPI".
- The number of ratings or categories exported as plain text will no
longer affect the number of blank lines following.
- No longer strips blank lines from ingredients (better compatibility with
text import).
- Wrapping of ingredient lines no longer confuses exported nutrition
links.
- Import window will display files with any combination of file
attributes. (Used to ignore files without attributes.)
IMPORT ASSISTANT
- Auto-Fill will prompt to overwrite information in Last Saved Source.
- "Use Last Saved Source" will no longer use changed but unsaved source
information (e.g. "Save Changes?" cancelled).
- Clean Up Paragraph function will recognize multiple blank lines and
reduce to double-spacing.
PRINTING
- Switching "Print On" in Edit Design no longer clears Hide tab
checkboxes.
- File>Edit Print Design no longer disables print command.
- Fewer nuisance "Save Changes?" dialogs on closing Edit Design view.
- Last paper selection will be preserved from session to session.
- Font Size and Name now display correctly for text objects.
- Clearer error message when no printer is installed.
- Prevent the publish palette from showing up outside of the desktop
rectangle.
SEARCH
- Pantry will no longer be searched unless criteria has been added.
- Expanded Keyword search displays checkbox selections in criteria list.
- Expanded Keyword search criteria are now persistent when changing views.
- "Greater than" cost values now display correctly.
- Delete Search dialog now functions more logically.
- Search criteria can now be saved without performing a search.
- Greater stability in Search.
SHOPPING
- Increased stability of "What can I make?" feature.
- TAB key move focus in a more regular manner.
TOOLS
- Panel now refreshes immediately after a new substitution is added.
- New synonym will be displayed immediately after ingredient is saved.
- Improved keystroke navigation in the ingredient list "Nutrition Facts"
tab.
- Displayed costs are now rounded correctly.
- "Average Whole" warning is no longer erroneously displayed after an
ingredient is edited.
- Find and Replace now works with accented characters.
- CTRL+V now works in Find and Replace.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - What's New With ValuSoft's Version 7.0?
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Miscellaneous
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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New Features:
Over 1,000 delicious new recipes contained in 2 new cookbooks - On Cooking
and Food for Fifty. MasterCook Deluxe now has over 5,000 family tested
recipes!
Includes the Food for Fifty and On Cooking (selected chapters) text books
in PDF format. View an astounding amount of cooking tips, charts,
reference information, recipes, and much more!
Download Recipes and Shopping lists to your PDA (Palm OS or Pocket PC).
The included MasterCook software for Palm OS and Pocket PC allows you to
add new, edit, and delete recipes and shopping lists. Make shopping a snap
by creating one or more shopping lists and exporting them to your PDA
device. Once in the store, you can sort your lists by store location and
filter by have/need status - you will be in and out of the store in no
time!
Compress your cookbook picture files to save disk space and increase
portability of your cookbooks.
When browsing cookbooks for recipes, you can now filter recipes in the
recipe browser by any search parameters including nutritional values,
ingredients, cooking time, categories, etc. This feature will save time
and headache by only displaying the kind of recipes you want to see. So if
you are interested in seeing only vegetarian recipes when browsing, that
is what will be shown!
Easier saved search management for saving searches you use often.
Executing your favorite searches are only 2 clicks away!
Includes 12 predefined recipe searches for easy searching. From recipes
with no meat to recipes low in fat, we've provided a base of common recipe
searches.
More intuitive program navigation makes getting around easier.
Added ability to edit an entire field or context in the Find/Replace and
Spell check screens.
Ingredients with no nutritional value are highlighted in the ingredient
list.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed the problem in that prevented the ability to create/edit category
templates.
The sizes of the combo boxes on the recipe browser were increased.
All columns in the shopping list screen are now shown by default.
The Clipart and Cookbook Covers included with previous versions of the
product, are back on the CD.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Miscellaneous - WONSwap Application
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Miscellaneous
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: What is the WONSwap application?
A: It is used for the Recipe Post when you export recipes. This allows you
to send recipes to Sierra's Recipe Library:
http://www.sierra.com/sierrahome/cooking/library/
UPDATE: The Recipe Library no longer exists since the MasterCook.com web
site that hosted it was taken down.
NOTE: The Recipe Post tab in the Export and Mail window has been removed
from ValuSoft's v6.2 program. WONSwap is not included in the ValuSoft
title either.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
ottermum
04-16-2005, 01:13 PM
* Exported from MasterCook *
Nutrition - 'Average Whole Size' Warning Message
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Recipe Editor
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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In the Nutrition tab of versions 6+ you've probably noticed the warning:
"MasterCook assumes an average 'whole' size of this ingredient."
This is telling you one of several things:
1. If your recipe called for 1 apple with nothing for the "unit" field of
the recipe, then it is telling you that it is giving you the Nutritional
Analysis (NA) based on the average whole size of this fruit.
It does this because "apple" in the Ingredient List is listed by SERVING
SIZE, WEIGHT, and VOLUME. If you list 1 cup apple, it will base the NA on
the volume. If you list 1/2 pound apple, it will base the NA on the
weight.
2. If your recipe has an ingredient that has no SERVING SIZE, but you list
the ingredient in the recipe by serving size, you will see this warning.
For example, if your recipe calls for 12 macadamia nuts with nothing for
the "unit" field of the recipe, then it is going to base the NA on 12
TIMES the "average whole" of 134g/1 cup of macadamia nuts. Look at the
Ingredient List under "macadamia nuts" and you will see the program knows
this ingredient only by WEIGHT and VOLUME. Therefore it is best to enter
this ingredient in a recipe by something it knows instead -- WEIGHT or
VOLUME.
3. You will also get this warning if you leave out the AMOUNT and UNIT for
the ingredient in the recipe. For example, if your recipe called for
"macadamia nuts" but did not state an amount at all, MasterCook will not
incude any Nutrition for it in the NA.
You can quickly see the NA for individual ingredients by using the
INGREDIENT ANALYSIS command available from the Ingredient menu while in
the Recipe Edit view of MasterCook. Highlight/select an ingredient row and
then choose this command. When doing this you can see that:
-- in example 1 above, 81 calories is calculated 1 apple, 65 calories is
calculated for 1 cup, and 123 calories for 1/2 pound apple
-- in example 2 above, 11,288 calories is calculated for 12 macadamia nuts
-- in example 3 above, 0 calories is calculated for macadamia nuts
As you can see, it is very important to pay attention to this warning and
understand why you are getting it. This way you will know if you need to
edit the recipe by adjusting the affected ingredient(s) further to get an
accurate NA.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Nutrition - NA Differs From Other Sources
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Nutrition
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: When I manually import a recipe from Cooking Light magazine, the
nutritional analysis comes out completely different! Any ideas? It seems
to happen with quite a few. I've found a recipe that came with the
SierraHome MasterCook 6.0 Cooking Light edition. It says that a whopping
74% of calories come from fat, but the magazine says it's more like 24%.
Big difference! Here's the ingredients:
INGREDIENTS FOR 11 SERVINGS: 3/4 (4 pound) beef brisket 1/2 teaspoon
pepper 1 cup sliced onion, separated into rings 1/2 cup chili sauce 3
tablespoons brown sugar 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 (12-ounce) bottle beer
2-1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons water black
pepper (optional) Halved tomato slices (optional) Fresh parsley sprigs
(optional)
A: I find it's very important to choose the right ingredient from the
Ingredient List. Many of the ingredient names don't tell the whole story.
We need to open the Ingredient List and read the product description. Find
out if the ingredient assumes "roasted chicken with skin" or "dried" not
"Fresh" "shiitake"
Those two things are the biggest shockers. And "beef!" vs "hamburger" and
what was "lean" back when the ingredients were first entered into the USDA
database. Often the product I use is "lean beef round steak" -- that is
not the same as the "lean hamburger" that is in the database. I think the
government data is quite dated.
The ingredient list that MasterCook uses is based on government figures.
USDA Nutrient Database - Standard Reference Web site:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
Another resource I use a lot: Ingredients Found in the Ingredient List of
MasterCook (http://mastercook_cupboard.tripod.com/MC_Ingredients.htm) -
which lets us find (Hit Ctrl+F while on that web page.) all the
ingredients that contain a string like "turkey" -- that helps me identify
which ingredient I want to use and how it is worded in the MC Ingredient
List.
Also, I don't trust the nutritional summaries just because they are
printed in magazines. When common sense tells me no way is that 288
calories - it's more like twice that! It often is. I just found one of
those this morning. It was a lasagna. It said "serves 4" but it should
have said: serves 8.
You wrote: "Cooking Light Edition. It says that a whopping 74% of calories
come from fat, but the magazine says it's more like 24%. Big difference!"
74 versus 24% CFF? That doesn't surprise me. I guess in 1993 this recipe
was considered low fat.
This recipe brings up a good example of how we have to edit recipes with
meat. Because there is a big difference between what we buy and what we
prepare and what we end up eating.
Meats are like that - particularly roasts. Plus, this recipe is very
complicated. I'm taking clues from the directions:
* Buy a 64 oz beef brisket and trim it to 48 ounces.
* Cook and shrink it to 33 ounces.
First edit would be the beef:
* 3 pound trimmed brisket (about 4-lbs untrimmed)
This isn't entirely satisfactory but it's closer.
Next we add about 2 cups of liquid:
* 1/2 cup chili sauce
* 3 tablespoons brown sugar
* 2 cloves garlic, crushed
* 1 (12-ounce) bottle beer
MasterCook doesn't know what a "bottle" is. We need to edit that to 12
ounces bottled beer.
Presumably some parts of those 15 ounces of fat and liquid is rendered
from the beef are added to the pan drippings. So that's about 4 cups
liquid minus whatever evaporated. aarrgghh! Totally unable to estimate
without taking a sample in a lab and testing it.
Next we skim that and take 1 1/2 cups of it. Add
*2 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup water, plus
* 2 tablespoons water
Cook it until thick, which adds volume. So let's simplify this and assume
we get 33 ounces total ( )
So, how can we enter this recipe and improve the estimate? We could
separate it into two recipes: the roast and the cooking liquid. But there
is no estimate of the fat in those pan juices. We might try to delete the
number of servings and enter the ounce-yield instead, but this is more
trouble than it is worth.
Were you planning on making this recipe? Three ounces is a little high on
a low-cholesterol diet. Personally I don't trust that 24% CFF estimate.
Not with a brisket of beef and beer and flour and sugar.
By the way Betty Crocker explains this way: "You may notice that the
nutritional information calculated by MasterCook is different from the
nutritional information listed in the Betty Crocker® cookbooks. Because
MasterCook and Betty Crocker® use different nutritional analysis programs
and different nutrient databases, variations in results are expected." To
see a few of what those other programs are go here:
http://www.nutribase.com/highend.shtml
You wrote, "I'm new to this program and last night I think I may have
stumbled on to something. The ingredients list in the recipe show the beef
brisket in "pounds" but my ingredients list in the MasterCook program are
all listed in grams. Could this be where the problem is?"
Those grams give us the scale we need for individual servings (small). So
they are okay as grams with micrograms of cholesterol etc. MasterCook does
the math for us. We get more accuracy when we scale upwards.
Check out the database the USDA offers us. It will give an idea of the
data they provide. Go here:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
The real problem is the beef. It is an animal product and most of its
calories come from animal proteins and fats.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Nutrition - Nutrition Checkbox in Preferences
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Nutrition
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q. I cannot figure out what difference it makes to have
[ ] show nutrition calculation notes on or off. We set it under
Preferences.
A. It turns the nutritional warning on or off.
When we run the Nutrition Analysis, a box pops up and tells us what
assumptions MasterCook has to make to calculate the recipe. For example:
* garlic (MasterCook assumes an average "whole" size of this ingredient)
If we don't want to see these notes each time we analyze a recipe, we turn
it off.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Pantry/Shopping - Changed Units
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pantry/Shopping
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I was working with 3 recipes and they called for 2 1/2 cups flour, 2
1/2 cups flour and 2 cups flour. When I clicked "Combine" in the Shopping
List, I got 1 3/4 quarts flour on my shopping list. How come?
A: This conversion is by design. Did you notice that all the tablespoons
of sugar were combined too. Changed many tablespoons to cups. Easy to buy
that way. Cups will be combined and converted to quarts. So, if we were to
use ounces instead, for our dry measures, it would be more accurate for
shopping, nutrition and formula.
When we rescale a recipe, the units are not changed. It leaves it up to us
to change to the unit of choice. The shopping list is geared more toward
bulk and purchase.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Pantry/Shopping - How do they work together?
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pantry/Shopping
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q: I have created a new pantry list and have placed a check beside
everything I already have. I then went to meals and added my chosen
recipes to a shopping list. Here's where I am stumped. If I leave a check
on all of the items in the shopping list indicating that I need them why
doesn't the merge button uncheck the items I already have in my pantry?
A: This tip appears in PamE's Tips "cookbook", which you can download from
her website, http://mc6help.tripod.com/
[quote] The Merge feature will merge your shopping list into your pantry.
However, you will need to use the "Make New Shopping List From Pantry"
command from the File Menu to merge your pantry into your shopping list.
Here is how it works in version 5.05: In your shopping list you have these
items with checkmarks to show that you NEED them:
1 gallon milk
2 cups sugar
Now press the Merge button and go look at your pantry which now shows you
have:
1 gallon milk
2 cups sugar
It assumes you purchased these items and adds them to your pantry.
*******
Now set your pantry up like this (with no checkmarks to show that you
DON'T HAVE them):
1 pound butter
2 cups flour
Now use the command: Make New Shopping List From Pantry from the File
Menu. Go take a look at your shopping list, which now looks like this:
1 pound butter
2 cups flour
with checkmarks so that they will print because you need to go buy them.
Now you can add recipes or whatever to this shopping list and save it.
[end quote]
*******
Q: I went through my cookbooks and chose 5 meals I wanted to prepare in a
week, I then added those recipes to a shopping list. Now I am not sure if
I need to edit some of those ingredients after I move them to the shopping
list or not - I assumed I could press "combine ingredients" button and it
would do it for me. I then made a pantry list with the same name as my
shopping list and typed in all the products I had already at home. This is
where I ran into much trouble. When I tried with whole units it worked
okay but I simply don't understand about the adding the recipes to
"Shopping" and then merging "Pantry" so I can get a complete list.
Sometimes it does uncheck some of the items but not all.
A: If you have a pantry, that's where you start. And you may want to make
up a fake pantry and a couple of fake recipes to practice with. It *is*
hard to see sometimes -- yes!
There are two things you might be running into here. The first is that
"combine ingredients" is supposed to take care of the situation where you
have 1 cup sugar in one recipe and 1 cup sugar in another recipe. It
should combine them so the listing is for 2 cups sugar. It will not
combine Shopping List and Pantry.
The other thing is that "combine ingredients" will combine a weight with
another weight or a volume with another volume, but it cannot combine,
say, 1 cup sugar and 1 pound sugar. You may be running into this same
concept when you try to merge shopping list and pantry together -- you say
that merge will uncheck some items, but not all. I don't think MC realizes
that if your Pantry shows you have "5 pounds" of sugar, you will not have
to buy "1/2 cup" sugar. So your ingredients should be listed in the pantry
according to how your recipes will call for them.
But -- I think you are still not starting with your pantry. Here is what I
did:
I made a pantry of three items:
2 cups flour
1 gallon water
sugar
I checked flour and water to say I had them. I did not check sugar (and I
did not enter an amount). I saved it as "test".
Go to File>Make New Shopping List From Pantry. This step is the key one --
if you want your needed pantry items to show up on the shopping list, you
must start here.
Then go to Shopping list tab. See that the sugar is listed and has a check
that you need it. Good.
Then drag a recipe onto the shopping list from MasterList -- ingredients
are 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar and 1 cup water. Those ingredients show
up on shopping list. I click "check all", because I want them for my
recipes.
Click on "merge" while in Shopping List, and MC will compare my shopping
list with my pantry and uncheck items already in the pantry from the
shopping list. It does. The only items that remain checked are the sugars.
But neither "merge" nor "combine ingredients" will combine that 1/2 cup
sugar from the recipe with the unspecified amount of sugar I said I needed
in Pantry.
Q: I did this test, but I don't understand why the pantry shows I have 2
cups of flour when I think it should have subtracted the 1/2 cup used in
the recipe from there.
A: It isn't designed to do this. The merge feature doesn't subtract
amounts, just items.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Pantry/Shopping - Number of Items in Pantry
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pantry/Shopping
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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Q. I was entering my pantry and entered my 100th item. Now it won't let me
enter any more. Does anyone know how to get around this?
A. You need to insert a new row.
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Pantry/Shopping - Search Pantry and What Can I Make?
Recipe By :
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Pantry/Shopping
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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This is from the readme.txt file that installed with your MasterCook:
16) WHAT CAN I MAKE The "What Can I Make" feature of the Pantry (under
Shopping) and "Search for Ingredients in Pantry" (under Search) match
ingredients in the Pantry with ingredients in recipes. Only the recipes in
which all ingredients are found in the pantry will be returned by the
search. Only pantry entries that are found in the MasterCook ingredient
list are considered for the search. If an ingredient in a recipe is
nutritionally linked to an ingredient in the MasterCook Ingredient list,
the pantry must contain the name of the MasterCook Ingredient list item,
NOT the ingredient named in the recipe.
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When you have the What Can I Make? window opened, you need to manually
select something from the drop-down list (which cookbooks to search) each
time you use the feature. I've found that when I open the window for a
second time it says "All Cookbooks" already, but it only searches one
cookbook for me. I had to reselect "All Cookbooks" to get it to search all
my cookbooks again.
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Q: I have crackers unchecked in my pantry and shopping list, and yet, when
I search ingredients in the pantry, I get results including the unchecked
pantry items. That doesn't make any sense.
A: This sounds correct. Search does not look at your shopping list at all,
and looks only at the ingredient name in your Pantry. It apparently
doesn't look at whether there is a checkmark in the "have" column.
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Q: I performed a simple search where I simply typed in the ingredients in
a recipe and I received no results, even though the recipe was in the
cookbook.
A: The keywords should be typed in with just a space in between them. If
you include punctuation, like a comma, the search will look only for those
recipes where the keyword is followed by a comma.
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Q: I searched a selected cookbook that I had downloaded with my pantry and
found nothing. There is a recipe in it I could make with the ingredients
in my pantry (zucchini, sugar and water). Why didn't the search find it?
A: I set up a test pantry and test recipe using the information you
provided. In the recipe, I entered the amount of sugar required as 1 1/2
teaspoons (volume). Then I "searched" two different ways.
I set up advanced search to search on "Ingredients in Pantry," checked the
box for "use Pantry Only" and selected the test pantry. Then I clicked on
Search -- in All Available Cookbooks. The search results included the test
zucchini recipe (and some caramel recipes, too). I got the same results
when sugar was listed in the pantry as a volume on hand (in cups) or as a
weight (5 pounds). So this search was focused on the ingredient name alone
-- not on any quantity information.
Then I switched to Pantry's "What Can I Make?" and searched in All
Cookbooks. When the amount of sugar in the pantry was listed in weight
(pounds) rather than in volume (cups) I did not get any recipes in my
search results. When I changed the amount of sugar in the Pantry to be
cups of sugar, "What Can I Make?" returned the names of the test recipe
(and the caramel!).
So the "What Can I Make?" was looking at the amounts of the ingredients as
well as the ingredient names, and was not translating weights into volume
equivalents. So -- to use "What Can I Make?" you will need to enter the
amounts in your pantry by whatever unit your recipes most frequently call
for, either volumes or weights.
If you want to experiment with these functions, I suggest you save your
pantry list after changing units, and then exit the program and restart
it. I may have been doing something odd myself, but I found that the "What
Can I Make?" function did not reset itself immediately after I changed
items in the pantry to reflect volume rather than weight. I got consistent
results as outlined above if I made the pantry changes, saved the pantry,
then exited the program and restarted before using "What Can I Make?"
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TIP: To maximize the number of recipes returned when you use What Can I
Make?, enter Pantry items using the "Index name" of an ingredient. (See:
Ingredient List - Use Caution When Editing Ingredient List)
For example, if you enter "corn" in your Pantry, you will get back recipes
using "corn," "frozen corn," and "frozen corn kernels."
S(Formatted By):
"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. :
* Exported from MasterCook *
Printing - 2x4 Labels
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Q: How can I print the Avery #8463 label sheet that provides two across,
five down, each label 2 X 4-inches?
A: Select the Print icon. Select the Custom button. Choose the 3 Hole
Paper from the Name Paper drop-down menu. Do the following steps in this
sequence: (1) Place a check mark in the Create Multi-section Templates
box. (2) In the Number of Sections set it at 2 horizontal and 5 vertical.
(3) In the Template Margin set right and left margins to 0.25 inches, set
the top and bottom margins to 0.5 inches.
Now go up to the Paper Size and set it for 8.5 Width and 11 Height.
Finally, set Paper Margins right and left to 0.25 inches and top and
bottom to 0.1 inches. Then "Save as" Avery #8463 or whatever other name
you wish.
Next, go into Edit Design, choose a design that will allow you to hide the
Directions field. Note: Some designs permit that while others don't. Be
sure that the design you pick also allows you to align the Notes field
horizontally in position and width as the Title field. I also suggest you
reduce the font size for the Title field and, if necessary, for the Note
field to make everything fit on the label.
Also, after you have checked all the fields you want to hide, then in
addition to making sure the Note field aligns horizontally with the Title
field, you need to be sure to drag the Note field up to and abut the Title
field. If there's a large vertical space between the two, the Title field
will print on one label and the Note field will print on another.
Finally, in the Palette window, choose the Page tab and for Paper choose
the Avery #8463 or whatever you named it. Then make sure the Number Pages
option is unchecked. For the Start option, choose either On next page or
On next column, whichever seems to work best with your printer. Choose the
Hide tab and check everything except Title and Notes. You will probably
want to save this design to another name to call up later.
Note that the margins set under the Template Margins set the margins for
the 8.5 X 11-inch paper size while the margins under Paper Margins set the
margins for the 2 X 4-inch labels.
I tried this on two printers, one is an Epson Laser and the other is an
Epson 600 inkjet. I did note that the laser would inexplicably skip a
label once in a while but the inkjet did fine.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
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Printing - A Cookbook with Epson Sylus 740 Printer
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Printing A Cookbook With MasterCook and Epson Sylus 740 printer
This cookbook is printed on both sides of full sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 in.
paper.
1. First I sorted my cookbook by categories on the screen.
2. Selected a couple recipes from a cookbook.
3. Pressed the Print icon.
4. Adjusted my printer settings (color settings/quality) by using the
Properties button in the MasterCook Print window (upper right corner).
5. Design: MC Default Design.
6. Paper: Letter 8 1/2 x 11 in.
7. Checkmark for Number pages beginning with: 1.
8. No checkmark for Reverse Print Order.
9. Number of copies: 1.
10. Print range: Current Recipe(s).
11. Include: (a) Title Page, (b) Table of Contents, (c) Recipes Embedded
Recipes, (d) Recipe Index, (e) Category Index.
12. Print On: Long Side. Checkmark for Flip Manually.
13. Orientation: Portrait.
14. Pressed Print button.
I got the dialog that says, "MasterCook has printed the front faces of the
pages in the current print job. You should now flip over and reinsert the
paper to print the back faces. Click the OK button when you have flipped
the paper." [OK] [Cancel] It then proceeds to print the front faces.
15. After it finishes printing the front faces I then reversed the order
of the pages and reinserted the stack with the blank sides face up and the
top of the pages inserted downward and pressed the OK button.
It then proceeds to print the back faces of the pages.
16. After the print job is complete I reverse the order of the sheets.
And my printed cookbook is in order: Title Page, Table of Contents, first
category heading, recipe, second category heading, recipe, Recipe Index,
Category Index. Pages are numbered correctly.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
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Printing - Avery 8387 Labels
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Q: I have been trying to get the recipe card to print. I can get it to use
one of the four spots for one recipe to print at one time. I would like to
find out how I can get more than one recipe at a time to print.
A: Are you using the name tag Avery form: #8387 - with 4 cards, to be
printed landscape?
I just tried this and here are the steps:
* Sort by ratings.
* Select 4 recipes (ones that will fit, one recipe per card).
* Click the printer icon.
* Uncheck Print Embedded Recipes.
* Uncheck Number Pages.
* Select paper: Avery #8387 (5.5x4.25 card).
* select Landscape orientation.
* Click Edit design. Click Palette.
* Select and edit a design.
* Click the Page tab. Make sure landscape is selected and number pages is
not selected. Set up start recipe on next page.
* Adjust the size of the text boxes (another way to adjust the right-hand
margin.) See note below.
* Select print preview to check your results.
* Print.
Note: The Avery selection comes set to 0 margins all around. It's up to us
on the design layout to set margins to fall inside of the printer's print
zone. Check your printers manual for that information.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
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Printing - Blank Pages Printing
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Q: Can you tell me what causes a blank page to print before a recipe.
A: Check the properties of your printer driver (my computer | printer |
[your printer] ). Look around - using on the first set up page, for
"separator page" - set this to none.
Also, when printing more than one recipe you will notice a red letter
printing on a page by itself. This is a placeholder for the category
subheadings.
WORK-AROUND: The alphabet letter placeholders will disappear if you sort
the cookbook by Ratings (instead of by name or category) before printing.
However, sorting by ratings will only work if you do not have ratings
active in that cookbook.
If you only have one rating active for the cookbook and then sort the
cookbook by ratings before going to print cookbook, you will get a
"place-holder" page with that rating name on it. If only part of the
recipes in the cookbook are rated, you will have another "place-holder
page" with "No ratings entry" on it.
For the recipes that have ratings, the recipes with the lowest number
rating will print first. (Those with 0 will print before those with 5.) If
several recipes have the same rating, say a 3, then they will print in
alphabetical order in a group.
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"Pam Erickson"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
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Printing - Book of Booklets
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I've recently published my cookbook of 255 recipes 300 pages long, without
printing in the ‘normal’ way. The normal way of printing the cookbook is
to choose from the Print/Publish Recipes window for the Print Range option
set to Entire Cookbook. What the program will do when this option is
chosen is to number the pages sequentially 1 to 300 for the entire book
without a break. The major problem with using this option is that it is
very inflexible for making future changes which are almost inevitable. Say
that you want to add a recipe to the middle of the book. After doing so,
you may think that just 1/2 the book would have to be printed. Not so. You
have to print the whole book again to correct the Table of Contents and
any of the Indices (Recipe and/or Category).
Rather than do that, I've chosen to treat the book as a group of booklets,
whose printing is independent of each other. Now, the addition of a recipe
to one of the booklets means to reprint just that one booklet to bring
your cook book up to date. What is in each booklet depends upon how you
choose to sort the cookbook (sort by Author, Alphabet, Category, Cuisine,
etc.) I chose to sort by Category. Each of the booklets are independently
numbered starting with page 1. The booklets when printed includes their
own Title Page and Table of Contents that shows what pages each recipe is
printed on. The booklets are then bound in a three-ring binder with
dividers indicating the selected categories, such as Poultry, Sandwiches,
Desserts, etc.
In the back of the book is a Recipe Index showing the category for every
recipe listed alphabetically. This tells you indirectly where you can find
the recipe if you know its name. Creating this index was the biggest
problem, but once made, it will be easy to maintain. The steps taken to
create it were (1) print a Table of Contents (without page numbers) for
the whole cookbook. (2) Scan the list into a word processor. (3) Create a
two column table from this list with the category entered into the second
column corresponding to each recipe.
Normally, if the Recipe index option for printing a cookbook is selected,
an index will be printed at the end of the cookbook. The index lists the
title of each recipe in alphabetical order with the page numbers listed
after each recipe. However, if the cookbook is a book of category booklets
the page numbers are not listed for each recipe. The category/categories
are listed instead. To locate the recipe then, the category booklet is
turned to where the page number is listed in its own Table of Contents.
This is a very flexible and efficient way in organizing and maintaining a
cookbook. The concept is based on the fact that page numbers for recipes
are quite variable during a cookbook’s development, whereas the category
for the recipe isn't variable. Also, most cookbooks are organized by
category such as Breads, Meat Dishes, Seafood, etc.
There are two ways to create a Recipe Index for a cookbook of booklets.
The first and best way would have the program print it for you. The second
way is to generate it yourself. In the above reference the procedure
suggested was "(1) print a Table of Contents (without page numbers) for
the whole cookbook. (2) Scan the list into a word processor. (3) Create a
two column table from this list with the category entered into the second
column corresponding to each recipe.
A problem with step 3 is that the categories are entered manually into the
table which is a slow process because each succeeding recipe in the
alphabetical list of recipes is likely to be different. Thus, to keep a
correct account of recipe/category correspondence is time consuming and
highly error prone process. A second more mechanical way is do change the
first step to (1) Print a Table of contents for each category booklet.
Then (2) is to scan each list into the word processor. Now, in step (3),
there is no question as what category is to be entered into the 2nd
column. When all the Recipe index tables are created in a single word
processor file, the tables are merged and then the resulting table is
sorted alphabetically for the 1st column.
This table is then printed for inclusion into the cookbook.
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
0mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
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Printing - Booklets
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Recently I've been successfully printing booklets on 8 ½ x 11 paper using
MasterCook. I've had experience printing booklets using Microsoft
Publisher for Windows and have used this tool to do so with MasterCook
recipes by exporting to text format and importing them into Publisher.
These booklets, as with books, are printed on both sides of the paper with
two pages on each side. Also the paper is printed with landscape
orientation. The booklet is assembled by stapling in the middle of the
stack of paper and then the stack is folded at the middle. MS Publisher
has the capability of correctly numbering these pages. Standard word
processors can't do this which includes MS Word. A characteristic of the
page numbering is that the sum of the pages on the left and right side of
any sheet is a constant. To my pleasant surprise, MasterCook can do this.
Incidentally, some people think of booklets as printing two pages on just
one side of the paper which are then individually folded and then stacked
together and stapled alon