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Welcome
MAXQDA Screens and Menus
Use of Table Overviews in MAXQDA
Documents and the “Document System”
Importing Structured Documents
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
Codes and How to Code
Creative Coding: Arranging Codes in MAXMaps
Intercoder Agreement
- The Problem of Intercoder Agreement in Qualitative Research
- The Agreement Testing Concept in MAXQDA
Memos: Managing Your Ideas
Variables
Searching for Text: The Lexical Search
Coding Query: Finding Coded Segments
Complex Retrievals
- Logical Combinations of Codes
- Detailed Information about Complex Retrieval Functions
Visual Tools
MAXMaps
Statistics and Graphics Functions
- Frequency Tables and Diagrams for Variables
Summary-Grid
Mixed Methods Functions
Importing and Analyzing Twitter Data
Focus Group Analysis
Transcribing and Coding Audio and Video Files
Teamwork: Using MAXQDA as a Team
Admin System for User Management
- Calling Up and Activating User Management
- The Main User Management Window
Reports
Project Organization and Data Security
- Renaming, Deleting, and Duplicating Projects
- Manual and Automatic Backups for Projects
Import/Export Options
Special Features and General Options
Keyboard Shortcuts
Troubleshooting
Technical Data and Information
- Limitations and technical information
- File Management

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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
- File Management

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