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Welcome
MAXQDA Screens and Menus
Starting the Program
The MAXQDA Interface and the Four Main Windows
The Main Menu
The Toolbars
The Context Menus and Toolbars in the “Document System”
Context Menus and Toolbar in the “Document Browser”
Context Menus and Toolbar in the “Code System”
Context Menus and Toolbars in the “Retrieved Segments” Window
The Status Bar
Use of Table Overviews in MAXQDA
The Toolbar in Table Overviews
Managing Table Overviews
Searching inside Table Overviews
Filtering Table Overviews
Documents and the “Document System”
General Information about Importing Documents in MAXQDA
General Information on the Preparation of Text Documents
Importing Documents into MAXQDA
External Files
Objects Embedded in Text
Hyperlinks Embedded in Texts
Opening and Editing Documents
Opening two documents simultaneously
Opening Documents in Tabs
Renaming and Deleting Documents
Moving and Sorting Documents
Creating a New Document in MAXQDA
Assigning Colors to Documents
Creating Document Sets
Inserting Line Numbers in a Text Document
The Document Properties Window
MAXQDA supports Unicode: Analyzing texts in different languages
Notes on PDF Documents
Notes on Image Documents
Notes on Table Documents
Converting a Text Document into a Table Document
Importing Structured Documents
What are Structured Documents?
Importing Structured Documents with the Preprocessor
Importing Text from a Table/Spreadsheet (e.g. Answers to Open Questions)
Importing Bibliographical Data from Endnote, etc.
Import Web Pages with MAXQDA Web Collector
Save Web Page with Web Collector
Import Websites into MAXQDA
Import Online Surveys from SurveyMonkey
Links: Document Links, External Links, Web Links, and Geolinks
Links in MAXQDA
Document Links
External Links
Web Links
Geolinks
The “Overview of links”
Codes and How to Code
Information on Codes and Coding in MAXQDA
The “Code System”
Creating a New Code
How to code
Highlight Coding / Color Coding
Coding with MAXMaps
Coding with the Code Favorites
Coding with Keyboard Shortcuts
Emoticode: Coding with Emoticons and Symbols
Displaying Code Frequency in the “Code System”
Assigning Colors to a Code
Visualizing Coded Segments in the “Document Browser”
Coding Stripe Column Visualization Options
The Properties Window for Codes
Creating a Code Alias
Deleting Coded Segments: The Undo Function
Deleting a Coded Segment
Deleting Codes
Modifying Coded Segments
Moving and Sorting Codes in the “Code System”
Creating Code Sets
Copying Subcodes
Moving all Coded Segments of a Code
Copying all Coded Segments of a Code
Creating a New Top-Level Code
Splitting up a Code
Transferring the “Code System” to another Project
Importing Codes and Code Memos from an Excel Table
Weight Scores: Indicating Segment Relevance
Creating Comments for Coded Segments
Overview of Codes
The „Overview of Documents“ for a Code
Creative Coding: Arranging Codes in MAXMaps
The Idea behind Creative Coding
Starting Creative Coding and Selecting Codes
Organizing Codes
Quitting Creative Coding and Transferring Changes to the Code System
Intercoder Agreement
The Problem of Intercoder Agreement in Qualitative Research
The Agreement Testing Concept in MAXQDA
Memos: Managing Your Ideas
About Memos
Memos Attached to Document Segments
Viewing and Editing Memos
Creating Document Memos in the “Document System”
Creating Code Memos in the “Code System”
Printing and Exporting Individual Memos
Managing Memos in the “Overview of memos”
Searching for Text in Memos
Exporting a Selection of Memos
Linking Codes to Memos
Viewing Memos Linked to a Code
Compiling Memos of a Specific Document or Document Group
Converting a Memo into a Document
Variables
Document and Code Variables in MAXQDA
The “List of document variables” and the “List of code variables”
Adding new variables
Changing Variable Types
Renaming and Deleting Variables
The “Data editor”
Entering Variable Values in “Data editor”
Exporting Document and Code Variables
Importing Document Variables
Importing Code Variables
Importing and Exporting Variables from and to SPSS and other statistical packages
Displaying Document Variables as Tooltips
Searching for Text: The Lexical Search
Lexical Search Options
Search in the Four Main Windows
The Lexical Search: Options in the Dialog Window
Search Results
The Extended Lexical Search
Exporting Search Results
Autocoding Search Results
Keyword in Context (KWIC)
Coding Query: Finding Coded Segments
Activation: The Principle of Segment Retrieval
Activation by Color
Removing Activations (Deactivation)
The “Retrieved Segments” Window
Include Subcodes in Retrieval
Finding Important Coded Segments Using Weight Scores
The Simple Coding Query
Jumping from Retrieved Segment to the Original Document
“Overview of retrieved segments”
Table view of the “Retrieved Segments"
Printing and Exporting “Retrieved Segments”
Coding “Retrieved Segments”
Copying “Retrieved Segments” with Source Information into the Clipboard
Complex Retrievals
Logical Combinations of Codes
Detailed Information about Complex Retrieval Functions
Visual Tools
Code Matrix Browser: Visualizing Codes per Document
Code Relations Browser: Visualizing Overlapping Codes
Document Comparison Chart: A Visual Comparison of Coded Text
Document Portrait: Visualizing a Document
Codeline: The Sequential Visualization of a Document
Tag Clouds
MAXMaps
What Does MAXMaps Do?
Getting Started – Creating a New Map
Arranging a Map
Objects in MAXMaps
Object Properties
The Object Library
Link Mode: Linking Objects
Exporting and Printing Maps
Synchronization with MAXQDA
Model Templates in MAXMaps
The One-Case Model
The One-Code Model
The Code Theory Model
The Co-Occurrence Model
The Code-Subcode-Segments Model
Options in MAXMaps
Statistics and Graphics Functions
Frequency Tables and Diagrams for Variables
Summary-Grid
Frequency Tables and Charts for Subcodes
The Idea behind the Summary Grid
Creating and Editing Summaries
Summary Tables
Overview of Summaries
Mixed Methods Functions
General
Activation by Document Variable: Variables as Selection Criteria for the Coding Query
Crosstab
Quote Matrix
Typology Table
Configuration Table
Similarity Analysis for Documents
Joint Displays
Transforming a Code into a Document Variable
Transforming a Code into a Categorical Document Variable
Importing and Analyzing Twitter Data
What Possibilities does MAXQDA offer for Analyzing Twitter Data?
Importing Twitter Data
Autocoding and Analyzing Twitter Data
Focus Group Analysis
How can MAXQDA support Focus Group Analysis?
Importing Focus Group Transcripts
Tranforming an already imported text into a focus group transcript
The “Overview of Focus Group Participants”
Coding Query for Coded Segments
The Code Matrix Browser: View Coded Segments per Participant
Crosstab for Focus Groups
Using the Lexical Search for Contributions from Participants
Notes on Teamwork and Exporting Code Systems
Transcribing and Coding Audio and Video Files
General Information about the Analysis of Audio and Video Files
The “Media player” Toolbar
Inserting Audio and Video Files in a MAXQDA Project
Playing Audio and Video Files in MAXQDA
Notes on Synchronizing Transcripts and Media Files
Importing Transcripts without Timestamps and Subsequently Inserting Timestamps
Importing f4/f5 Transcripts with Timestamps
Transcribing Directly in MAXQDA: Transcription mode
Synchronizing Transcribed Text with Audio/Video files
The “Overview of Timestamps”
Coding Audio and Video Files in the Multimedia Browser
Teamwork: Using MAXQDA as a Team
How can MAXQDA support Teamwork?
Transferring a MAXQDA Project to Other Team Members
Transferring Coded Segments, Memos, Variables, etc. from one Project to another
Merging Two MAXQDA Projects
Admin System for User Management
Calling Up and Activating User Management
The Main User Management Window
Reports
Smart Publisher
Creating a Codebook with Category Definitions
Code Frequencies per Document, Document Group and Document Set
Project Information
Project Organization and Data Security
Renaming, Deleting, and Duplicating Projects
Manual and Automatic Backups for Projects
Import/Export Options
Overview of Import and Export Options
Print Preview
Opening Projects from Earlier Versions (MAXQDA 11 or older)
Opening MAXQDA Projects in MAXQDA 11
Special Features and General Options
The Logbook
Checking for Updates
General Preferences
Keyboard Shortcuts
Troubleshooting
Technical Data and Information
Limitations and technical information
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