Just for your information, here are the MasterCook upgrades in Versions 7, 8, and 9 of MasterCook
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http://mastercook_cupboard.tripod.com/general_faqs.htm)
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14. MASTERCOOK: What's New With ValuSoft's Version 7.0?
New Features:
Over 1,000 delicious new recipes contained in 2 new cookbooks - On Cooking and Food for Fifty. MasterCook Deluxe now has over 5,000 family tested recipes!
Includes the Food for Fifty and On Cooking (selected chapters) text books in PDF format. View an astounding amount of cooking tips, charts, reference information, recipes, and much more!
Download Recipes and Shopping lists to your PDA (Palm OS or Pocket PC). The included MasterCook software for Palm OS and Pocket PC allows you to add new, edit, and delete recipes and shopping lists. Make shopping a snap by creating one or more shopping lists and exporting them to your PDA device. Once in the store, you can sort your lists by store location and filter by have/need status - you will be in and out of the store in no time!
Compress your cookbook picture files to save disk space and increase portability of your cookbooks.
When browsing cookbooks for recipes, you can now filter recipes in the recipe browser by any search parameters including nutritional values, ingredients, cooking time, categories, etc. This feature will save time and headache by only displaying the kind of recipes you want to see. So if you are interested in seeing only vegetarian recipes when browsing, that is what will be shown!
Easier saved search management for saving searches you use often. Executing your favorite searches are only 2 clicks away!
Includes 12 predefined recipe searches for easy searching. From recipes with no meat to recipes low in fat, we've provided a base of common recipe searches.
More intuitive program navigation makes getting around easier.
Added ability to edit an entire field or context in the Find/Replace and Spell check screens.
Ingredients with no nutritional value are highlighted in the ingredient list.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed the problem in that prevented the ability to create/edit category templates.
The sizes of the combo boxes on the recipe browser were increased.
All columns in the shopping list screen are now shown by default.
The Clipart and Cookbook Covers included with previous versions of the product, are back on the CD.
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15. MASTERCOOK: What's New With ValuSoft's Version 8.0?
Please see the program's help section for more details on using the new functionality in version 8.
*** MASTERCOOK WEB IMPORT BAR ***********************************************
MasterCook 8 includes a revolutionary new feature called the MasterCook Web Import Bar. This bar allows you to surf the web for more great recipes and simply add them to MasterCook without ever leaving your web browser!
Your recipe options are endless as this new feature puts the web at your fingertips to obtain countless recipes, while still using the powerful features of the MasterCook program.
The Web Import Bar integrates with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. To begin using the bar after MasterCook is installed:
1) Open Internet Explorer
2) Click on the MasterCook icon (red “MC’ icon) on the toolbar of the browser**
3) The MasterCook Web Import Bar should now be showing on the left side of the browser.
4) Click on the Web Import Bar´s “Help’ tab to learn more about using the tool.
** Clicking on the “MC’ icon in the toolbar toggles the Web Import Bar open and closed.
NOTE: If your MasterCook Web Import Bar does not display in your browser after clicking on the “MC’ icon after installation, you may have to reboot your computer first.
*** MASTERCOOK BACKUP AND MERGE ***********************************************
The Backup and Merge software included with MasterCook 8 provides an easy way to migrate your important MasterCook data files. This software has 2 distinct functions represented by 2 tabs on the main screen: Merge and Backup.
1) Merge: If you have a previous version of MasterCook (version 4.0 and later) on your computer and would like an easy way to migrate your data to the new version, use the merge functionality of this software.
2) Backup: If you make frequent changes or additions to your MasterCook cookbooks, menus, meal plans, shopping lists, and other files, you should use the backup functionality regularly to easily back up your data.
To start this software you can:
- Launch it from the start menu by navigating to Start \ Programs \ MasterCook 8 \ MasterCook Backup and Merge
- Launch it from anywhere in the application by going to File \ Backup and Merge
*** E-MAIL SHOPPING LISTS *****************************************************
A handy new feature in MasterCook 8 is the ability to e-mail shopping lists.
You may want your partner to pick up a few things at the store on the way home from work,
or send it to yourself as a reminder.
*** OVER 2,000 NEW RECIPES IN 8 NEW COOKBOOKS *********************************
MasterCook 8 includes thousands of mouth-watering new recipes ready for you to make.
Whether you are a master chef or a beginner, there are recipes for you!
*** NEW SIMPLIFIED CATEGORIES **********************************************
All 7,000+ recipes have been simply categorized to make it much easier to find the recipes you want.
*** UPDATED INGREDIENT LIST **********************************************
MasterCook 8 has added and updated several ingredients in the ingredients to our already huge database of 6,000+.
*** BUG FIXES IN MASTERCOOK PROGRAM **************************************
MasterCook 8 includes several bug fixes in the program to make it more stable than ever before!
*** BUG FIXES IN PDA FUNCTIONALITY ***************************************
New in this version are several bug fixes that stabilize and improve the already handy PDA integration.
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16. MASTERCOOK: What's New With ValuSoft's Version 9.0?
MasterCook 9.0 Bug Fixes:
FATAL CRASH: Involving Recipe Editor with decimal fractions. In MasterCook 8 open the Preferences. In the General tab Display Amounts as Decimal Places (2). Create a new recipe with an ingredient using a decimal unit of measure, i.e. 0.5 teaspoons fennel seed. Select Change Recipe Units from the Ingredient menu. Select the fennel seed ingredient. The program crashes to the Windows desktop.
WEB BAR: Does not import time in hh:mm format correctly, i.e. 1:30 (1 hr 30 min)
WEB BAR: Ingredients not clearing when importing a recipe without an ingredient list after importing a recipe that does have an ingredient list
BACKUP & MERGE: Problems merging My Cookbook. Currently, MC will not overwrite a newer file (just installed with MC 8) with an older one (from an installed older version). But users expect that when they use Merge, their own My Cookbook from the older version will be merged -or their personalized version of a different MC cookbook. There should be a dialog box during Merge that asks if they want to use the older version of the file or the one just installed with MC 8. Furthermore, merge will not merge ANY cookbook from MC 7 if it has the same name as a cookbook installed with MC 8, even though the date stamp of the MC 7 file is newer (tested with MC 7.0 Deluxe). Added a "file overwrite" dialog to MasterCook 9.0 that fixes this problem
SPELL CHECK DEFAULT SETTINGS: When MC ships, ALL fields should be check marked to SpellCheck (people keep missing the Options button and think MC is deficient because it doesn't check Ingredients field).
BACKUP & MERGE: Merging ingredients. Selecting "No to All" causes problems.
INSTALLATION: Registry keys and start menu entries are sometimes left behind when uninstalling.
RECIPE BROWSER: Filter recipes shows all recipes when it should show none. When we are viewing an opened cookbook and FILTER RECIPES BY something and it finds nothing, instead of it displaying no recipes, it displays them all. If it doesn't find any recipes by that criteria, then it should show no recipes at all.