I'm obviously a newbie here. I printed out my first recipe yesterday and it was so-o-o large that it extended the paper i was printing on. Consequently i did not have amy of my ingredients. Surely this has happened before. Is there a way to format my printing so that i can use ordinary 8.5x11 paper? Thanks Emmy
I'm not exactly sure what you are saying -- the recipe was more than one sheet of paper long, or more than one sheet of paper wide?
BigOven should use the same print settings that your browser uses.
And, when you are getting ready to print from BigOven, you can use the page setup options to choose the paper size to print on.
Steve Murch offers really good support on using BigOven at http://bigoven.com/help.aspx, in the "Help and Fixes" forum.
If you need to do something that BigOven doesn't do, you might be able to do it in another program, like WORD. I wrote BOPtool to format BigOven recipes in WORD just the way I like them.
Renee
Thanks for your comments. The recipe was way too wide for my 8.5x11 paper, and I have just learned that BigOven was formated to work on Internet Explorer. When I printed out my first recipe, I was using another browser. It's my favorite really, but I'm not on the computer that much so when I replace my laptop, I'll just use IE for my browser. I have since printed out another recipe, and was able to print on 4x6, but I couldn't even preview it on 8.5x11. Thanks for the tip about the Help and Fixes forum. I am sure I will use that a lot. And also for your link to BOPtool I'm sure I will appreciate that also.
Emmy
You don't need to use IE as your browser. You can change the print settings from within bigoven. After you hit "preview and print", click on the picture of the gear for page setup. Choose the size paper you want. The recipe should then get reformatted to fit the page size, unless there is something really unusual about the recipe to prevent that.
Steve Murch provides really great product support at http://bigoven.com/help.aspx, and can walk you through all of the features of bigoven, and there is a lot of information in the FAQ (http://www.bigoven.com/cs/forums/10.aspx)
Good Luck!
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