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by zeryck - 12/15/08 2:18 PM
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Microsoft Access as Recipe Book?

by zeryck - 12/15/08 2:18 PM

Hello,
My mother loves to cook. Because of this, she keeps a record of her hundreds of recipes. She's been using FileMaker Pro 2.1 (from 1994!), but recently it's been having problems. I decided to export the recipes and import them into Microsoft Access, which is already installed as part of Office 2007.

I'm pretty sure this should work, EXCEPT for two things:
1) The ingredients field has a line break between each ingredient (so it's formatted as a list). When it imported, Access put a small question mark where the line break should be. Is there any easy way to convert every one of them into a line break, or to get Access to import them correctly?

2) I can't figure out how to lay it out for print. Each time I try to print a recipe, it prints a blank page and then the recipe. Any thoughts?

Also, whenever it starts up there's s security warning, though the only thing I did in Access was import a CSV file. It's mildly annoying, but if anyone knows why it happens it'd be great to eliminate it. Other tips would be welcome too :)

We're running Windows XP Home SP3 and Office 2007. Thank you for any help you can give!

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