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Michael "Dog3" wrote:
> notbob > : in
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>> On 2008-06-28, sf <> wrote:
>>
>>> Why do you want to use recipe software and not just use Word Docs kept
>>> in files?

>> Why use Word, which still has all kinds of proprietary formatting? Use
>> notepad or wordpad and save the file as a .txt file. Then, it can be
>> imported and/or sent to any platform/OS with no probs.

>
> I tend to just save the whole RFC article as a text file. Then it goes
> into the mygarbage/cookingandrecipes/RFC file for later use. When I get
> around to it I'll open the file, trim the headers and gunk off it and then
> file it into the RFCrecipe file.


I save recipes from RFC and other groups in My Files. I put an '1' in
front of the file name so I know that I haven't put it into the cookbook
yet. When I get around to it, I tweak the recipe like to get rid of
headers, etc. and use "Import Assistant" in Master Cook to put it into
my cookbook.


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