MAXQDA offers three main ways to search in the texts or within each main window.

• Each of the four main windows has a toolbar at the top of it that contains a magnifying glass icon. Clicking on this opens a field where you can enter text to search for within that window.
• With the lexical search tool (the magnifying glass in the “MAXQDA standard” toolbar), you can search within all documents, memos, or coded segments. You also have the option of limiting this search to certain activated documents or document groups.
• The third option is to do an extended lexical search that offers several possibilities to search for combination of search items in definable contexts, like paragraphs or sentences.