The preferences
You open the Preferences from the mini-toolbar.
You can customize Shop'NCook in many ways in the Preferences. Here is a non-exhaustive list:
General tab
- Change the size of the characters of the software
- Select what you want displayed at program start
- Page to open when you search for recipes on internet
- Default style of the recipes and menu when exporting to HTML
Shopping List tab
Recipes tab
- Select which information is displayed in the recipe header
Scaling tab
- Scale recipes by default to some fix number of servings
- Enable automatic substitutions in recipes
- display the original quantities in parenthesis
- Convert volume to weight units
- Convert metric weight unit to US weight units, or vice versa
Menu tab (Menu and Pro editions only)
- Create new menu by default with a fixed number of servings
- Default mode of the menu manager: single menu, day, week, etc.
- First day of the week of the calendar
Appearance
- Default character font, size and color for the recipe and shopping list display and print out
Print
- Margin size
- Include headings in the shopping list
- Print the shopping list in two columns
- Include a main comment to the shopping list
E-Mail tab
- E-mail settings
- Preferred format (plain text or HTML)
- Character encoding
- List of e-mail addresses for fast access
Nutrition tab
- Nutrients to display in the nutritional analysis
- Switch between the energy in Cal or in kJ
- Format of the nutritional analysis
Costing tag (only Pro edition)
- Currency
- Enable the correction for refuse
- Default profit margin
- Hourly labor rate
Network tab
