NVivo Preferences - General

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. Refer to Create, view or change user profiles for more information.

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 logon 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.

Refer to About teamwork for more information.

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

Click this button to view or change the narrow reach settings for different types of source material—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)

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