In some cases, you will be setting up the same subcodes for various codes. You might, for example, have the codes “Childhood,” “Teenage Years,” and “Adult Life,” which should each have the subcodes “Education,” “Family,” “Friends,” and “Memorable Experiences.” So that you don’t have to create these four subcodes three times, you have the option of setting them up for one of the main codes, copying its subcodes, and pasting them into the other main codes. To do so, you would follow these steps:

1. Create the three main codes: “Childhood,” “Teenage Years,” and “Adult Life.”
2. Create the four subcodes for the main code “Childhood.”
3. Right-click on the Childhood code and select Copy subcodes.
4. Right-click on each of the other main codes and select Paste subcodes.

MAXQDA then adds the copied sub-codes in the same order as the original code. The newly inserted sub-codes do not have a color assigned to them.