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.
For example, if you are working with a collection of interview transcripts, you can automatically code the contents based on heading styles or paragraph number.Text – NVivo 10 can manage files that are. NOTE If you have a collection of structured document files, you can use automatic coding techniques to speed up coding. (You must use the tab button or right-click menu to turn editing off). Click 'Click to edit' at the top of the Detail View, the Edit button in the Document, Video, Audio or External tab (depending on the file type you want to edit) or Edit in the right-click menu.You can edit the content of documents (not PDFs): The way you select content to code, annotate and link varies slightly between document and PDF files. Make connections to other files by adding see also links to selected content.
PDF files-these might be published reports, articles, or a collection of scanned documents.Word documents (or text files)-these might be interview transcripts, field notes or group discussions.When gathering your files, you may want to import: