The lexical search function allows you to research your documents without first coding them. You can do searches of either documents, memos, or coded segments, which are currently shown in the “Retrieved Segments” window. The search can also be limited to activated documents. You can choose to search in a single document, a document group, or all documents that have certain variable values. The lexical search function can be started by…
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Search Results
Your search results will be shown in a table that appears as follows: Along with the usual filter functions, the toolbar at the top of the results window provides access to the following functions: Autocode search results – codes search results with an existing code. All search results that have not been excluded from the selection (and which display a Stop symbol in the first column) will be autocoded. Code search results with a new code –…
Managing Dictionaries
The Dictionary function MAXDictio allows you to create and manage dictionaries. A dictionary consists of one or more categories in which search terms can be defined. Select the Dictionary Function of MAXDictio via MAXDictio > Dictionary. The following predominantly blank window will appear when you open the dictionary function. The window is divided into several sections: 1. Dictionary of project This section lists all the dictionaries that…
Export Search Results
The results table of the lexical search tool offers the possibility to export search results by clicking on the Export icon in the toolbar of the results window. The following options window will appear, where the range of the data to be exported in relation to the search term can be defined: The export window is divided into two parts. Options for the export of search results from a PDF document can be selected in the upper section, with the…
Search in the Four Main Windows
All four main windows in MAXQDA have a magnifying glass icon in their toolbars. Clicking on the Search icon opens a search field. Below you can see the search field in the “Document Browser”. MAXQDA begins searching as soon as you type the first character into the field and shows you how often that particular search string has been found in the currently opened document. You can use the arrow icons next to the search field to skip through the…
Autocode Search Results
Like the segments in the “Retrieved Segments” windows, lexical search results can be automatically coded, meaning all text passages found in the search are assigned as specific code. This automatic coding has the advantage of being easy and reliable. The disadvantage, however, in comparison to manual coding, is of course that you can’t examine the relevance of each respective text passage during the coding process. The occurrence of a…
Managing Table Overviews
MAXQDA lets you open several table overviews that list project data such as coded segments, memos or variables. In the Reports tab you can find many of these, the contents of which always refer to the whole project: Overviews in MAXQDA can be customized as in Excel or other similar spreadsheet programs. For the following example, we’ll use the table view of the document variables in MAXQDA: The heading of each column has the name of each…
Keyword in Context (KWIC)
Often, you wish to determine the context in which a given term is used. In this case, you can create and print a so-called KWIC (KeyWord In Context) listing. The procedure is as follows: Perform a lexical search by keyword. Double click on any search result in the result table to exclude this result (a stop sign symbol indicates which lines are excluded). You now have two option: Export all KWIC-listing to XLS/S, HTML, or RTF by clicking the…
Search Results
Your search results will be shown in a table that appears as follows: Along with the usual filter functions, the toolbar at the top of the results window provides access to the following functions: Autocode search results – codes search results with an existing code. All search results that have not been excluded from the selection (and which display a Stop symbol in the first column) will be autocoded. Code…
Exporting Search Results
The results table of the lexical search tool offers the possibility to export search results by clicking on the Export icon in the toolbar of the results window. The following options window will appear, where the range of the data to be exported in relation to the search term can be defined: The export window is divided into two parts. Options for the export of search results from a PDF document can be selected in the upper section, with the…