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Import from Word Document or Other Program

Many people who have entered recipes in the past into a word processing program, like Microsoft Word, or another cookbook program often of ask us for a way to import these recipes into Family Cookbook Project.

Unfortunately, there is no automatic way to import these recipes into our system because each source uses its own layout and there is no way for us to identify what information needs to needs to be entered into our fields.

The good news is that it’s quick and easy to copy and paste a recipe into Family Cookbook Project using cut and paste.

 

Here’s how: Simply highlight all the ingredients in your source document and hold down the Ctrl key while pressing the “C” key on your keyboard. Next go to “add a new recipe” in your family cookbook site. Click in the ingredients box and now hold the Ctrl key while pressing the “v” key. This pastes what you have copied into the field. Repeat for title, directions and notes and you are done!

 

Once they are in your account, you can format them to look any way you want and we will automatically create a Table of Contents and indexes for your cookbook.