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How to Make an Existing Cookbook Use Your Default Categories
NYC has a set of categories that it applies to each new cookbook that you create. You can edit these default categories using Tools… Data Management… Categories tab… Defaults for New Cookbooks… Edit… button.
To use these default categories in an existing cookbook while maintaining as much of your existing recipe categorization as possible:
1) Use File… New Cookbook… to create a new empty cookbook – it will be open by default. Use Recipes… Cookbook Categories... to verify that the categories used in the new cookbook match those in catlist.def (they should, because supplying default categories for a new cookbook is the purpose of catlist.def).
2) Use Tools… Options… Import/Export tab and uncheck “transfer new categories”. If you don’t do this, NYC will bring over categories to your incoming cookbook that are not in your catlist.def
3) Now use File… Import Recipes… to import all recipes in your cookbook into the new cookbook. NYC will retain categorization for categories that exist in the new cookbook.
You can then use File… Rename Cookbook… if you used a preliminary name when you created the new cookbook. Then begin using the new cookbook.
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