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Coding Text: Document Settings & Tools

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Document Settings and Tools

When you open a document, you have several options and tools that can aid in your analysis such as: 

Change Font Size 

  1. Select a document from your Media workspace
  2. Select the "Settings" icon in the upper left corner 
  3. Adjust the font size

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Edit Excerpt Length

  1. You can change the size of an excerpt by setting a new start or end point. To so:
  2. Activate the excerpt you want to edit by selecting (right click) the gray bar to the left of the excerpt
  3. After you are in excerpt editing mode, left-click where you want to set a new start or end location. 
  4. Select choose new start or choose new end

 

Edit Document Content 

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  1. Select a document from your Media workspace
  2. Select the "Lock" icon in the upper left corner to unlock the document
  3. Make the desired changes
  4. Select the "Lock" icon once more to relock the document and save your changes

 

Search Document 

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  1. Select a document from your Media workspace
  2. Select the "search" magnifying glass icon in upper right corner
  3. Type in a word or phrase and hit "search" 
  4. You can select "next" to cycle through all places in the transcript that the word/phrase appears

 

Export Coded Document

  1. Select a document from your Media workspace
  2. Select the "export" icon in upper right corner (arrow pointing up) 
  3. Make sure the "highlight excerpted regions" box is selected

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Enable Custom Color Scheme 

  1. Select a document from your Media workspace
  2. Select the "Settings" icon in the upper left corner 
  3. Choose the dropdown menu next to "Color Scheme" and choose your desired view

 

View Line Numbers 

  1. Select a document from your Media workspace
  2. Select the "Settings" icon in the upper left corner 
  3. Select the "Line #'s" box

Note: Line numbers will change according to font size and the size of your screen. If you want to communicate an accurate location within a transcript, use the "character count" option under the Search function instead. 

Change Document Title 

  1. Select a document from your Media workspace
  2. Select the "Edit" icon in the upper right corner of the document 
  3. You can retitle, add/revise the document description, clone, or delete the document

Clone Document  

  1. Select a document from your Media workspace
  2. Select the "Edit" icon in the upper right corner of the document 
  3. Select the "clone" button in the lower left corner of the window. Doing so will create a copy of the document along with any excerpts or code applications that will be available via the Media workspace

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