The workspace

The ribbon at the top of the screen contains the most common commands, on 7 tabs. The menu bar at the very top of the screen includes all commands (many commands are also in context menus Context menus).

If you cannot locate a command in the menu bar, you can use the Help menu to find it:

1. Open the Help menu and in the Search field type the command name.
   The menu with the command opens and the command is indicated.

In the top-right of the NVivo window you can log into your myLumivero account , and rate NVivo or submit feedback .

This panel lists all the items in the currently open project (data files, codes, cases, memos, classifications, saved queries and query results etc.), grouped under categories: Data, Coding, Cases, Notes, Sets, Queries, and Visualizations. Click an item in the Navigation View to show its contents in the List View.

You can collapse the panel to provide more working space Show/collapse.

For Navigation View items that hold files, you can create subfolders to organize the files in a way that suits you Create folders

This view displays the contents of the item or folder currently selected in the Navigation View. Click items in the List View to open them in the Detail View.

You can delete, cut, copy, paste, print and export items from the List View Print project itemsExport files or memos. You can also add items to sets Sets.

Configure the List View by re-ordering thelist Sort items. The Created on column displays the date and time when the file or code was created or imported and Modified on column displays the date and time when the file or code was last edited.

The Detail View is the main work area in NVivo, where you code and annotate files, view codes and cases, write memos, and configure and view queries and visualizations.

The Detail View has its own specialized toolbar, across the top of the View, showing menus with commands specific to the type of file open in the View. You can also use context menus in the Detail View for commands relevant to the selected items Context menus.

The Detail View can be positioned to the right of, or below the List View Change Detail View position.

Editable files open into the Detail View in read-only mode—check Edit in the Detail View toolbar to edit.

You can expand the Detail View to take up the entire NVivo window, giving more working space Expand the Detail View.

You can open multiple items on different tabs in the Detail View. Close individual tabs with the tab cross symbol or close all from the View menu, Close All Items.

A Search field on the top right of the NVivo window allows you to search for files, folders, codes, cases or queries within the current project. The search searches project item names—not words inside documents. Search results are displayed in the List View.

Click the log icon at the bottom left of the NVivo window to see a log of import and export operations for the session. If an error is recorded, the icon changes to an exclamation mark.

By default, the log automatically displays errors—e.g. failure to import an unsupported file type. You can change by clearing Show automatically.

The log automatically clears when you close a project—you can save to a text file with the Save button first.