In article >, Monsur Fromage
du Pollet > wrote:
>cathy wrote on 15 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking
>
>> I need to update my recipe program. I'm using a VERY old program
>> called Micro Kitchen. It's something like circa 1992, but it still
>> works on my XP laptop.
>>
>> However I figured it's probably time to get something more
>> current. I need a program that will run on both my laptop (XP) and
>> my PDA (Palm Tungsten E). Ideally I'd like something that can
>> import the files from Micro Kitchen, [...]
>
>Go to http://www.tucows.com/
>search for recipe software for a pda then makes your choice.
>I like Now your Cokking from www.ffts.com but pretty sure it won't run
>on a pda. You could make a template in Word and download the recipes
>that way...Excell has grocery Shopping list templates too. You can Get
>those at the MS office template page. Or make your own.

Ah! Thanks for that hint. I was going to suggest a Word template to
a previous enquirer here because I know someone who is happily using
one to organise a few generations of her family's cooking heritage;
but when I looked around my own Office installation, I couldn't find
one. Never occurred to me to look for a free download of the things
from Microsoft, but now a quick google based on your phrase "MS office
template", and all is revealed! :-)

The "Cooking and Entertaining" templates are at:
<http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT011553901033.aspx>

The Cookbook template requires Word97 or later. The compressed
download is about 124KB which expands to a .DOT file about 262KB.
It claims a 4-star rating (out of 5) based on 730 opinions.

Cheers, Phred.

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