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Pete Romfh
 
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Pete Romfh wrote:
> wrote:
>> One of the things that sold me on Living Cookbook (and
>> other software may have this) is the Capture function.
>>
>> You can copy a recipe from a website, or any other
>> document, paste it into the software, then just highlight
>> the various portions of text (title, ingredients,
>> procedure, etc) and it feeds the info into the recipe and
>> formats it.
>>
>> This saved a TON of time for us, because all of our
>> recipes (hundreds of them) were in a Word document.
>>
>> And it's also great because if we get a recipe from
>> Allrecipes.com or Epicurious.com that we want to keep, it
>> just takes a few seconds to capture it.

>
> That's exactly the function I'm wanting. Can BigOven also
> do that ? Also can Living Cookbook read other recipe
> formats to import from other programs (Master Cook, Home
> Cooking, etc) ?


Answering my own question.
I looked at the demo of Living Cookbook. It imports info from most of the
major packages.

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