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VEGAN FEAST SUBSCRIBERS' COOKING AND RECIPE FORUM>
I FOUND A FREE DOWNLOAD FOR YOU TO INDEX THE V F
Bryanna
Owner/Moderator
1153 posts
Aug 29, 2005
9:54 AM
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I JUST SENT AN EMAIL TO ALL OF YOU, BUT, IN VCASE YOU MISS IT, HERE IT IS:
If you save the issues of the Vegan Feast onto your computer, you can use this indexing software easily, offline, to find not only the right issue, but the actual spot in the particular issue where your keyword is located!
It's called Copernic Desktop Search and it gets good reviews. It searches all kinds of files, including html and PDF. I downloaded it yesterday and have been working with it--it's easy and it works!
First of all, you must save the Vegan Feast issues to your computer. Create a new folder in your Documents file called "Vegan Feast". The newer PDF files are no problem to save-- the instructions are on the newsletter page. Save them (the pdf issues) to the new "Vegan Feast" folder rather than an Adobe folder, though.
You can also save the older, online issues, with pictures (but the links won't work) easily on your computer this way:
Go to the web page with the issue you want to save and right-click on "file" at the top lefthand corner of your page, then click "save as". Click on the "Vegan Feast" folder when the box with your file folders comes up, and give the file a name ("Aug Sep 03", for example). Use the drop down menu below the file name to choose "Web page, complete" as the type of file you want to save. Below that there may be another space, which should read "Unicode (UTF-8)". Click "save". It only take a minute or two to save the page to your computer. Don't save it in the folder called "My Webs"! For some reason, Copernic would not index the newsletter when it was located in "My Webs", but it did when I proceeded as I have just instructed.
(IF YOU WANT TO OPEN THE PAGE OF ONE OF THE OLDER [NON-PDF] ISSUES OFFLINE, JUST TO PERUSE, go to Microsoft Word, open the "Vegan Feast" folder and click on the file for the issue you want-- there will be two folders for each issue, one with a yellow folder, which contains just the photos from the file. The other file will have the Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox [or whatever browser you use] symbol on it-- that's the one you want to open. [Unfortunately, the page doesn't look as good in Mozilla as it does in IE.] You will see the page just as it is online, but not be able to use the links.)
BACK TO THE INDEXING SOFTWARE:
Once you have downloaded Copernic (takes about 6 minutes on dial-up) and installed it-- it's very easy-- you can use the "Options" on the Copernic toolbar to decide what drives and files to index-- you don't have to index your whole computer. I set it to index just my documents, pictures and music. It took a little while to index all my files, but once it's done, your set! It will update whenever you want. Here is the download page (you can find a link to the FAQs page on the righthand side of that page, too):
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/download.html
HOW TO SEARCH:
Now that you have saved all of the past issues on your computer as html or PDF files, and you have downloaded Copernic Desktop Search, installed it and had it index the files you want to searched, you can search.
Say you want to find the recipe for "italian baked fruit-stuffed peaches" and you can't remember what issue it was in. Go to the Copernic search page and type in that phrase (with quotation marks for the whole phrase-- lower case is fine), then choose "any" under "file size". Go to the "Folder" bar at the bottom of that section and click "browse". Find your "Vegan Feast" folder and click on it.
Your search results will come up, either or both html and pdf files. Click on the file you want and the page will come up (including the images) in the bottom section of the search page and go right to the phrase you typed! (It will go to the first instance of that phrase on the page-- to find the phrase further down, click on the little magnifying glass symbol beside the phrase on the righhand side of the bottomsection which displays the page.)
YOU CAN COPY FROM THE FILE WHEN IT'S IN THE SEARCH PAGE, TOO-- THIS INCLUDES A PDF DOCUMENT.
NOW, SAY YOU WANT TO LOOK FOR RECIPES FROM THE NEWSLETTER USING A PARTICULAR INGREDIENT-- NO PROBLEM! Let's say "potatoes". Type that into the Copernic search bar (no quotes necessary), then proceed the same way (file type "any"; "Vegan Feast" folder). Any file in the "Vegan Feast" folder that contains that ingredient will come up, and you can hen browse the files for a particular recipe or just to find something interesting to do with your ingredient.
I hope that this is clear to you and will be useful.
Sincerely, Bryanna
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"To look like a goddess, eat like a peasant." Karen Andres
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Debbie
824 posts
Aug 29, 2005
10:02 AM
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Bryanna,
You are not only just a KITCHEN GODDESS, you are also a COMPUTER GENIUS! :-) Thanks so much! I always follow your recommendation in application software packages. Now, I can play in my PC. Thanks again! This subscription is worth more than I bargain for.
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Debbie
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~ Harriet Van Horne
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Bryanna
Owner/Moderator
1155 posts
Aug 29, 2005
10:06 AM
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That's the first time anyone has called me a "computer genius"! LOL!
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"To look like a goddess, eat like a peasant." Karen Andres
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Debbie
828 posts
Aug 29, 2005
1:21 PM
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Bryanna,
This Copernic tool is WAY TOO COOL! I have been playing with it. Yes, you are GENIUS to find the way. ;-)
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Debbie
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~ Harriet Van Horne
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JulieH
179 posts
Aug 29, 2005
1:58 PM
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Darn. This program doesn't look like it will work for Macs, only PC with Windows. Please let me know if anyone hears of a similar version for Macs.
Thanks!
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Bryanna
Owner/Moderator
1157 posts
Aug 29, 2005
3:28 PM
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OMG-- I forgot all you mac users! Sorry!
Have you looked at "Spotlight" for macs? Here's a page on it:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/
I don't know what it costs, though.
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"To look like a goddess, eat like a peasant." Karen Andres
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