Printing Recipes and Cookbooks Group - Most Recent Comments | BigOven.comhttp://www.bigoven.com/?refer=rssfeeden-ushttp://www.bigoven.comSat, 21 Nov 2009 03:23:53 GMT110Re: BOPtool for WORD -- print cookbooks at home using WORDhttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxI tried to follow your instructions......searched and found the BOP tool where I had copied it. But when I went to try it - it said "this template is not valid". I believe I have the 2000 version of Word. Am I misunderstanding something - very likely because I'm rather a slow learner when it comes to computers.  Thanks for your help.

- Norski4]]>cooking commentsRe: need help printing a recipehttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxYou 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!

- ReneeM]]>cooking commentsRe: need help printing a recipehttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxThanks 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

- satchmosmom]]>cooking commentsRe: need help printing a recipehttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxI'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

- ReneeM]]>cooking commentsneed help printing a recipehttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxI'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

- satchmosmom]]>cooking commentsRe: Customizing the calendar featurehttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxYou might try the Feature Requests Board at BigOven Support.

I'd love to see more import/export features in BigOven, so BigOven doesn't have to reproduce all the formatting and printing options I already have in other applications like Word or EXCEL.

- ReneeM]]>cooking commentsCustomizing the calendar featurehttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxI recently bought Big Oven software because I wanted to be able to choose my favorite receipes or put in new ones for a weekly menu and automatically generate a shopping list.

I'm a little disappointed in the functionality of the calendar / menu planning features.  The basic things I would look for in menu planning software, I haven't been able to do.  Since I'm a newbie, perhaps I'm just missing how to do this, but if not, please consider this a serious request for a future version!

1.  I want to be able to copy an entire menu from one week to the next and then modify it.  Right now, it appears the only way to do this is drag and  drop each unique item from my receipe list into the new day one at a time -- a waste of time.  Why not allow us to save a weekly menu?  Or daily menu?  And then reload it?

2.  I should be able to add items that are not a "recipe" to my menu plan -- for example, "1 glass of milk" or "V8" .  Right now I have to create a "recipe" for a glass of milk so I can add it to my menu.

3.  I'd like to be able to add all items on a weekly menu or daily menu to the shopping list instantly, but right now I have to select each individual item and add it.  

4.  I've been doing my weekly menu plans in Excel prior to buying Big Oven and I am able to dress it up and print out a nice looking menu plan to put up in the kitchen.  In Big Oven, I don't see any way to 'doll up' your weekly menu with a border or color or graphics -- and no way to export the data to a Word or Excel file so that you can do it there.  At the very least, you should be able to export from the calendar.

These are basic features I would love to have in planning my weekly menu.  If I'm simply missing how  to do these things (or any of them), please let me know how to do it!

Best regards,

Jane in California

- jensenholmes]]>cooking commentsRe: Big Oven logo on recipe cardshttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxAnother approach, if you have WORD2003 (or maybe later), is to try the BOPtool from the RecipePrintingTools Google Group

 

- ReneeM]]>cooking commentsRe: Re: BOPhttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxThat may be. I've only been able to test it in Word 2003.  If you could be a little more specific, I might be able to help.

- ReneeM]]>cooking commentsRe: Big Oven logo on recipe cardshttp://www.bigoven.com/groups.aspxCopy and Paste to notepad as a text document,

You leave behind pictures and logos

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