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Menu section names.

All recipes that are entered into a menu must go into a "section". Typical sections in a menu are starters, mains and desserts, but there could be several others.

When you first start to enter a menu and you add recipes into it you will be asked to specify a section number. This is because you have not yet set up any section names.

Setting up section names is optional; you don't have to do it and you can continue to use section numbers if you wish, however having real names for your sections is much more intuitive and easy to remember.

You set up section names via the Menus / Menu Section Names option.

Here you can see that several section names have already been created.

Each section name must have a corresponding section number. Which number you use is entirely up to you but there are a few considerations to keep in mind when choosing.

• If you have already entered some menus and you have used section numbers for the menu sections, you might want to use the same numbers so that the system can automatically convert your numbers into the appropriate section names.
  If you don't do this, any numbers that the system cannot convert into a section name will remain as the number.
• The section number is used to sort the recipes into order on the menu.
• When you set up your section names, you might want to space out the numbers, as in the above screen shot. Then, in the future, if you decide you want to add another section name for salads, say, between soups and fish you can easily create Salads with a section number of 12 and it will simply slot in to its correct place without having to alter any of the others.

WARNING: This final point is an important consideration because if you alter any of the numbers on existing section names, any menus that use those sections will suddenly inherit the wrong section names.
In other words, once you have decided on your section name and numbering scheme and have entered some menus using it, do NOT change the numbering scheme.

With your menu section names in place, they will now be offered to you when adding recipes into your menus.