Domain Name Com's Software MasterCook Deluxe 9.0

Software MasterCook Deluxe 9.0

Domain Name Com's - Software : MasterCook Deluxe 9.0

- Doesn't support Vista
I love Mastercook and have had 2 earlier versions, but when we had problems installing the new version on a new computer and transporting on files over, we were told they don't support Vista. We eventually got the files converted but would have appreciated support doing it.

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- Longtime Solid Performer
Mastercook continues to be my favorite software for ease of use, organization, and recipe search capabilities. It has been a stable product for years and continues to be improved with each version update.

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- Love the shopping list feature
I mainly purchased this to input my own recipes and create shopping lists. Now I have cut my shopping time in HALF. Yes, what used to take an hour, now only takes 30 minutes. I shop every 2 weeks for my staples, and shop every 1 or 2 days to pick up what I need for dinner. So I got very organized with MasterCook. I have one big list for my staples, one big list for the every day stuff like milk, bread, snacks. Then I make little lists for my dinner recipes. Before I go shopping I just merge the lists together for one master print out. Also, (and this is kind of geeky) I was able to edit the ingredients database and change the store location to match the grocery store layout where I shop. Now my lists print out in the exact order that the store is laid out, with the aisle numbers printed. Did you ever go shopping and get to aisle 12 and realize you forgot an item on aisle 3? I used to do that several times each trip. I also wasted time searching down wrong aisles for things. Now my list is so organized I never forget things, and that's why I've cut my shopping time in half. Since I have to drag a toddler with me to the store, I'm grateful to be able to zip through the aisles so quickly. In conclusion I would have rated this a 5 on usefulness of the shopping feature, but it was a little complicated to learn the features so I give it 4. Aside: I am familiar with working with databases so I just played around with the features until I got it. (I didn't read the manual, which might have helped.) It might be hard to learn for someone unfamilar with a database-type program. I can't comment on the usefulness of the manual since I never opened it.

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- Is this the best anyone can do????
I find that this program looks like something from the early 90's. It is not user friendly. I bought it in order to type in my own recipes to see how they count as diabetic exchanges. It doesn't even have fat free cool whip listed as an ingredient, nor does it list reduced fat graham cracker crust. I am sure there are many more ingredients that aren't in this cooking program. It is hard to figure the exchanges of a recipe when the ingredients aren't in the program.

It seems like with technology as advanced and with programs like we have today, this program is very cheaply made and could be improved by at least 80%. In my opinion, it should be sold in dollar stores for no more than $5. I bet the company is making a killing on this one. I never write bad reviews, but I am sorry, I just can't think of anything good to say. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because I guess if you aren't wanting diabetic exchanges, it would be fine for keeping up with recipes (although it still isn't user friendly or fun to use).

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- Better Than Expected
I bought this software a couple of weeks ago with two main goals in mind: I wanted to keep all of my recipes in one place and I wanted an easy way to see the nutritional analysis of my own cooking.

Both of those goals were met by this product. But there is so much more to praise. I've been a software developer for over 20 years, and I am impressed with this product. Far from being like a shareware product that might ask a $2 donation as one reviewer wrote, MasterCook is a feature-packed, sophisticated program that does just about everything. I have now used it to import thousands of recipes, input my own, including photos, do various kinds of searches, add ingredients to the ingredient list with their nutritional info, edit recipes on the fly with the resulting nutritional analysis recalculation (very cool), and create new cookbooks and organize recipes the way I want. I've used the IE web tool to capture recipes online (ultra-cool), and have used the backup utility. Everything has worked without a hitch.

Here's a tip: My existing recipes were in a Word document. I decided to try saving it as an HTML document so I could use the web capture tool to import my own stuff into MasterCook. That worked just fine except that it wouldn't copy in the photos. I suspect that has something to do with the way Word does the conversion to HTML. If your recipes are already in HTML format, you should be able to use this tool to import, thereby avoiding a whole lot of manual entry.

Okay, now for the negative aspects. There are a few that I've found so far.

1. I have not found a way to import more than one file at a time. This is annoying. I have imported a lot of old meal master recipes in multiple text files. I had to import each file separately until I found another workaround. I used the DOS Copy command to copy multiple files into one file. Then I imported that one file into MasterCook. That worked most of the time.

2. The Toolbar with the Forward and Back arrows is at the bottom of the screen and I was not able to find a way to move it up top. I expect the back arrow to be at the top left of the screen as in a browser, so this is confusing.

3. Each cookbook has a limit of 12,000 recipes. I believe that if you try to import a file that puts it over that limit, the program closes itself without warning. At least, this is what happened to me a few times when I was trying to import large numbers of recipes to a cookbook that was full. Seems like it would be easy enough to check that as the import was working to prevent a crash.

4. The import process doesn't seem to allow you to manage duplicate recipes. Instead, it just gives them a unique title and imports them. I would have liked the option of skipping duplicates or somehow intervening to make a decision about them.

All in all, this product does everything I need and much more. I think I will be very happy with it for a long time. I would pay twice as much as the asking price for this one.

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