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| Hi! I'm pretty much a neophyte (newbie) with MasterCook, but as I go along I learn things, particularly with the help of the "Sweet P's" on the MasterCook BB (on my links page). Whatever I learn, I'll post here. If you have a great tip, email it to me, and I'll post it! |
| 2. I have created an action for Photoshop that allows you to quickly make covers. There is a readme file (read it!!), and the action, styles and a *.psd file. Download! |
| 3. I run MasterCook on 2 different computers, and very often I'll have to transfer ingredients from one computer to the other. The file is too big for zipping and transferring onto one floppy, but one of the "Sweet P's" recommended that I use winzip to split the file, and it worked!. Just zip the file directly onto your floppy drive (it won't work if you zip it onto your hard drive), and click the "automatic span disk" option. Have many floppies on hand, just in case it's a huge file. |
| 4. I have come across some ingredients that are not in MasterCook, and I need them for recipe nutritional information. Since I don't have a lot of stuff on hand, I recently got a book, The Complete Book of Food Counts by Corinne T. Netzer. It has basic nutritional information (calories, fat, fibre, sodium, cholesterol, etc) for thousands of food items. If I can't find what I'm looking for on the Internet (a great source for information if you can find it), then I use the book. |
| 5. I've started using the Nutritional linking feature a lot recently, particularly when I need an ingredient and I can't find the exact ingredient information. For examle, I recently need nutritional information for the Lindt Milk Chocolate Excellence Bar. I looked all over the internet for it, but I couldn't find any information. I did have a Ghriardelli milk chocolate bar on hand, so I inputed the nutritional information for the bar under it's name and just linked the Lindt to the Ghirardelli- not exact, but good enough. |
| 1. The best tip I can give you is to go to Pam E.'s site and download the MasterCook Tips "cookbook". It's great!! |
| 6. I just stumbled on this tip: instead of adding a new ingredient, create a synonym for an existing one. I.E.: MasterCook "out of the box" does not recognize the ingredient "white sugar", so instead of retyping the ingredient information for "sugar" as "white sugar", just do this: 1. Click on "white sugar" in your ingredient line. 2. Click "Ingredient" on the top tool bar, click "create nutritional link". 3. In the space under "Link Nutritionally with ingredient on the list", choose "sugar". 4. Click the little box next to "Create Synonym", and that's all you have to do! The next time you add "white sugar", MasterCook will recognize it. |
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| 7. When you come accross MasterCook files with the extension .mc, open these files in Wordpad, and keep pasting them, one after another into a Notepad file. Save the file as a .txt file, and import into MasterCook. Simple! |
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