focus groups + classification sheets + nvivo 12

If you can get this in Rich Text Format or in Word format, you can just import it as it is. breaking it up or reducing it and then adding headers which explain that) there is no point in going to any effort to change the way it looks.

Unstructured free flowing prose is what it is, unless there are reasons for doing so (i.e. Ncapture – an interface between Internet Explorer and NVivo can be used to capture web pages, pre-code them and then import them into a projectįor semi structured and unstructured text. from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter) and Evernotes – can be imported into NVivo. For video files, the general rule of thumb is that if they will play in Windows Media Player™, they will work in NVivo. Multimedia – NVivo 8 onwards recognizes many formats for visual, audio, and audiovisual materials. survey data direct from Excel and other database formats. If the PDF document was created (possibly scanned) without optical character recognition it may just be an image style format which can still be imported but the more limited ‘region selection’ mode not ‘text’ mode will be required to apply codes or annotations and text search tools are unlikely to work.ĭatasets –Import e.g. PDF format - where the file has been converted into PDF from Word or similar application etc., the file can be imported as it is, though some functions- like Text search will not work quite as well as if they were in Word/RTF/plain text. However in Word files, headers and footers, page numbers, line numbering, comment boxes (as per MSWord) will not be visible once imported. It is fine to include embedded charts, tables, graphs, or images. Text – NVivo 10 can manage files that are.

Focus groups + classification sheets + nvivo 12