NVivo Settings

The user name associated with your default NVivo user profile. Your default NVivo user profile is used to create your project user profile in projects.

User profiles

The initials associated with your default NVivo user profile. If you change the initials, it applies to any new projects you create. To change your initials in an existing project, refer to Create, view or change user profiles (Change the initials associated with my project user profile).

Display the Welcome to NVivo window each time you launch NVivo.

Prompt users to provide their user name and initials every time they launch NVivo.

This is useful if team members log on to a computer using a shared user account.  When each team member enters their own NVivo user name and initials, then you can track their work in the project separately. Teamwork

Select this option to code the whole word, when you select only part of a word. When this option is selected, if you accidentally select 'ick brown fox' instead of 'quick brown fox', the words 'quick brown fox' will be coded. By default, this option is selected.

This option is not available—only the text you actually select is coded.

Click this button to view or change the narrow reach settings for different types of files—the default settings are:

• Text—five words on either side of coded text in documents, PDFs, memos and externals
• Transcript—5 words on either side of coded text (within a cell) in an audio or video transcript
• Log—five words on either side of coded text (within a cell) in picture log
• Dataset—the cell surrounding coded text in datasets (not available in this release)

Click this button to view or change the broad reach settings for different types of content—the default settings are:

• Text—the paragraph surrounding coded text in documents, PDFs, memos and externals
• Transcript—the cell surrounding coded text in audio and video transcripts
• Log—the paragraph surrounding coded text in picture logs
• Dataset—the row surrounding coded text in datasets (not available in this release)

You cannot change your preferences for Help.

When an attribute has not been set the system default label is 'Unassigned'. You can change this to another term (e.g. 'Blank'). The new term must be unique among attribute values.

When an attribute is not relevant to the entity it is describing the system default label is 'Not Applicable'. You can change this to another term (e.g. 'Irrelevant'). The new term must be unique among attribute values.

The number of seconds the media player skips when you skip backwards or forwards while playing the media file. This option applies to any project you open. The default skip interval is 5 seconds. You can select any value between 1 and 99.