Project Properties - General


NVivo lets you view or change the project title and description, and other general options that apply to the currently open project.

Property Explanation

Title

A name that identifies the project. The project title can be different from the project file name. You can change the project title.

Description

A short description of the project. You can use this field to record the purpose of your project.

Text content language

The language NVivo uses for Text Search and Word Frequency queries.

If your source materials are in Chinese, English (UK), English (US), French, German, Japanese, Spanish or Portuguese, you should select the matching text content language. If your source materials are in any other language, you should select Other.

Refer to Set the text content language and stop words for more information.

Stop Words  

Words that will be ignored by Text Search and Word Frequency queries.

Click this button to open the Stop Words dialog and view the stop words associated with the currently selected Text content language. Default stop words are provided for English (UK), English (US), French, German,  Portuguese and Spanish.

You can add or remove stop words—refer to Set the text content language and stop words for more information.