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Create automated randomized menus

• Menu… Automated...

One-click download & import of thousands of recipes

• File… Quick Web Recipes (easy)

Easy Screen Import for unformatted recipes

• Recipes… Screen Import…

Find recipes that use only ingredients on hand

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Automatically categorize your recipes

• Recipes… Categorize Multiple Recipes… Auto-Assign frame… press Go

Find and delete empty categories

• Recipes… Cookbook Categories… Find Empty button… Select All… press Delete, then Save

Merge and delete categories across cookbooks

• Tools… Data Management… Categories tab… Manage Categories button

Export from search across cookbooks

• See this NYC User Tip

Find and replace text across cookbooks

• Tools… Data Management… Cookbooks… Text to Replace button, Find and Replace button

Analyze nutrition of any recipe

• Link recipe ingredients to nutrition database items
• Recipes… Recipes… (select a recipe), select Nutrition… Analyze…

Add a recipe as a nutrition database item

• Analyze a recipe’s nutrition
• press the Add to Nutrition Database button on the nutrition analysis window.

Email recipes

• Recipes… Recipes… (select recipes), press Email/Edit toolbar button

Email cookbooks

• File… Email Cookbook(s)… (select cookbooks)… press Send As Email button

Publish your cookbooks to Microsoft Word

• File… Publish Cookbook…, select a template (*.dot), press Publish button

Create a recipe website

• File… Export Recipes… “website (html)”, check “by category”
• press Customize button, customize the recipe web page, press Preview As Web Page
• press Export button, select Yes to remove existing temporary files, press Open
• select Recipes, press < to put them in export queue, press Export button

Backup all your user files

• File… Backup…, edit backup file name, press Back Up