This is how I deal with recipes:

For recipes on RFC, using Thunderbird as my newsreader, I click on
File >save as and the folder for the recipes I'm saving automatically
pops u[ in Word Perfect. I usually put a number '1' in front of the
title so I know that I haven't put it into one of my cookbooks yet.


To put it in a cookbook, I open Mastercook, then the appropriate
cookbook, highlight and copy the recipe, open a "new recipe" go to
"tools" and click "import assistant" paste the recipe there and then
save it to mastercook.

I can make any necessary changes (usually spacing in the directions)
right in the import assistant feature.

If it's a recipe on one of many, many internet sites, I use the
Recipefox extension on Firefox. I love this!

If I am copying a cookbook, I use my scanner and free OCR software
(better than the scanner's), scanning to Word Perfect, correcting
anything that didn't scan properly and using the import assistant on
Mastercook to put it in the proper cookbook.

This works for me. Less paperwork and the ability to use the search
features on Mastercook which I couldn't do with a looseleaf or with a
word processing file.

JMTCW


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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.