Add, delete and manage annotations

You can annotate the content in your sources or nodes. This topic explains how to work with annotations.

This video was recorded in NVivo 10; in NVivo 11, the annotations button was moved to the upper right.

What do you want to do?

Add an annotation

Keyboard shortcut To add a new annotation, press ⌘+SHIFT+A

In the popup, enter the annotation, and then click outside the popup or press ⌘+Enter when you are finished.

To edit an annotation:

Hover over the annotated content for a few seconds to display the annotation popup
Click in the annotation popup.
Use the arrow keys to move the insertion point to the location you want to edit.

NOTE You can use the arrow keys to move around and view all of the annotation.

To delete an annotation in your open source, do one of the following:

Hover over the annotated content to display the annotation popup, then click the Delete button.
In the left margin of your open source, click to display a list of all annotations in the open source, then select the annotation you want to delete and then do one of the following:
Right-click and select Delete
Press the DELETE key
Click Delete Annotation in the Annotations group on the Analyze tab.

In the left margin of your open source, click to display a list of all annotations in the open source. You can:

Navigate to the annotated content—single-click on an annotation in the list.
Display the annotation in a popup—as well as navigate to the annotated content—double-click on an annotation in the list.

NOTE You can double-click on an annotation in the list to navigate to the annotated content.

To search your annotations to find a word or phrase.

All the annotations in your project are displayed in the Annotations folder in the Collections group: