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Summary: Does this make sense?
Review: The software allows you to add pictures into the recipe database. Sound like a good idea right!! But there is no way to view the pictures with the recipe or to print them out. My goal was to keep our recipes organized, but also to print them and have them in a binder. Having a picture of the meal you are cooking is very useful, but not possible with this software.
Save you money, don't bother with this software.
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Summary: Very buggy software
Review: This is absolutely the worst software program I've ever purchased. Half the time I open it it's exits because of a fatal error. The instructions tell you when you have this type of error, that is usually due to hard disk errors, but after running scandisk to repair any errors, I still get the error. Usually when I read this kind of review, I think it might be the lack of computer knowledge of the user, but I'm a computer programmer, so I very computer savvy. I won't bother to check out the support, the software functionality is not worth it. Get MasterCook instead.
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Summary: Okay
Review: This software is good for it's purpose, but there are things I ould have changed on it. For example the chapters that are pre-set are not very user friendly. There should be basic titles like Dinner, Breakfast, Deserts, etc. Also when you add a recipes you can only add it to one chapter. If you want to add it to more that one you have to re-enter it. This is silly.
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Summary: Do not buy this software.
Review: This software program is terrible. I have Windows 98 and my personal computer meets all the system requirements as specified by the software manufacturer, but this software stopped working on my machine after only a few days. Errors occurred when I did not specify meals for each day of the Sunday to Saturday meal plan. (Contrary to what the software manufacturers believe, I DO NOT cook every day of the week!) When I tried to create a shopping list from the meals that I created in my 3-day meal plan, the software threw an unrecoverable database error which caused it to shut down. I could not re-open the software without the error recurring. ....BR>Other than that, I was also disappointed with the recipe selection and the unusual omissions on the ingredient lists (this thing had never heard of merlot!??). In addition, I did not see any way to download recipes directly into this software from my favorite websites, such as epicurious.com.
Overall, I would say that it's obvious that no one at the company who manufactured this software ever bothered to rigorously test it. I strongly advise against purchasing it.
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Summary: Great concept, bad software.
Review: Using the software was very time consuming. Data entry was not intuitive. It's basically just a big database. With the amount of work required to enter info into the software, I would have been better off saving my money and making my own recipe database in MS Access.
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Summary: Good Software, poor support
Review: Were it not for the glitches, this would be a great piece of software. My main complaint is that each time I update it with their latest software (which includes new recipes), instead of overwriting the existing recipes, it simply adds them again. So, after the installation and two updates, I now have 3 of every recipe. This is annoying on many levels. I've contacted customer support and their seeming automaton tells me to update to the latest version. Well...that's what is causing the problems. I'm a Microsoft engineer so I'm not computer-stupid. The software has some serious flaws. Buy at your own risk.
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