Customize the work area

 


Understand how you can change and customize the NVivo work area to suit the way you prefer to work—for example, you might want to make the Detail View space bigger.

What do you want to do?


 


Sort the items displayed in List View

You can sort the items displayed in List View, by clicking the header of the column you want to sort by—for example, to sort items by their creation date, click the Created on column header.

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Display Detail View on the right

You can arrange your NVivo work area to display Detail View on the right side of the window. This can be useful when you are coding sources using drag and drop, or when you are exploring coding stripes in a node.

  • On the View tab, in the Window Group, click Detail View, and then click On Right.

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Resize views and columns

To increase or decrease the size of List View or Detail View:

 

Click and drag the splitter bars.

 

To adjust the width of the columns in List View or Detail View:

 

Click and drag the column borders.

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