Technical Data and Information

Technical Data and Information

Contents TECHNICAL DATA AND INFORMATION... 1 CHECKING FOR UPDATES... 1 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS... 1 FILE MANAGEMENT... 5 LIMITATIONS AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION... 5 What data volumes can be edited with MAXQDA?... 6 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS... 7

Technical Data and Information Checking for Updates Each time you start the program, MAXQDA will check the MAXQDA website to see if an updated version is available. If an update is available, it is recommended that you download it in order to benefit from interesting new features and enhancements. Under Preferences, that you can open from the settings icon in the top right corner of the MAXQDA window, you have the options to decide if MAXQDA should Search for updates automatically or not. If you have opted to skip an update, you can later request it manually by searching for the item in the Help menu. Tipp: If you are using a MAXQDA network license, it may be possible that your network admin has deactivated the automatic search for updates. In this case MAXQDA will not check for an update each time you start the program and you will also not find the option in the help menu. Keyboard Shortcuts The following keyboard shortcuts are available in MAXQDA. General F1 Ctrl + N ctrl + O ctrl + A cmd + +? cmd + N cmd + O cmd + A ctrl + C cmd + C ctrl + X cmd + X ctrl + V cmd + V Alt + 1 alt + 1 Alt + 2 alt + 2 Opens the MAXQDA help system. Creates a new project. Opens an existing project. Highlights the entire text. copies the selected segment to the clipboard. cuts out the selected segment and puts it in the clipboard. Pastes the selection from the clipboard. Opens/closes the window "document system". Opens/closes the window "code system". 1

Alt + 3 alt + 3 Alt + 4 alt + 4 ctrl + Alt + B ctrl + Alt + M ctrl + Alt + R cmd + alt + B cmd + alt + M cmd + alt + R ctrl + F cmd + F ctrl + + F ctrl + P cmd + + F cmd + P Alt + Double-click Alt + double-click Opens/closes the window "document browser". Opens/closes the window "retrieved segments". Opens the logbook. Opens the Code Matrix Browser. Opens the Code Relations Browser. Opens the search toolbar for the current window or the table overview. Opens the lexical search. Prints the focused window or view. Inserts a MAXQDA object (e.g. a document or code) into MAXMaps, if MAXMaps is open. "Document System Double-click + double-click ctrl + click F2 Del Alt + UpArrow Alt + DownArrow Double-click + double-click cmd + click Enter cmd + BackspacE Alt + UpArrow alt + DownArrow Strg + Drag & DroP Alt + Drag & DroP ctrl + T cmd + T ctrl + D cmd + D Alt + + M Alt + + M Opens a document. Opens a document in a new tab. Activates or deactivates a document. Renames a document. Deletes a document. Moves a document or document group up and down in the Document System. creates a copy of the document without coded segments (start dragging and then hold Strg/cmd) creates a new document and opens it for editing in the Document Browser. Opens the dialog window for importing documents. creates a new memo or opens an existing memo for a document. "Code System ctrl + click cmd + click + click + click F2 Entf Enter cmd + BackspacE Activates or deactivates a code including the subcodes. Activates or deactivates a code without subcodes. Renames a code. Deletes a code. 2

Alt + UpArrow, DownArrow Alt + RightArrow, LeftArrow Alt + UpArrow, DownArrow Alt + RightArrow, LeftArrow Alt + Drag & DroP Alt + Drag & DroP Alt + N cmd + alt + N Moves a code (possibly with subcodes) up and down in the Code System. Increases and decreases the level of hierarchy of a code. creates a copy of the code without coded segments. Inserts a new code on the chosen level. "Document Browser ctrl + E cmd + alt + E Alt + l cmd + alt + l Alt + W cmd + alt + W Alt + C cmd + alt + C Alt + I cmd + alt + I Strg + l cmd + l F6 F6 PgUp, PgDN PgUp, PgDN Pos1, End Pos1, End Strg + Plus, Strg + Minus Strg + Zero Alt + Tab, Alt + + Tab Strg + F4 cmd + Plus, cmd + Minus cmd + Zero Alt + Tab, alt + + Tab cmd + W Starts and stops Edit Mode. codes the selected segment with the most recently used code. Opens the dialog window for creating a new code, which will be used to code the selected segment. codes the selected segment with the code shown in the Quick List. codes the selected segment with a newlycreated code named after the first 63 characters of the selected segment (invivo-coding). Inserts an internal link at the location of the selected segment. The location it is linked to is set by highlighting another segment in that document or another one in the project and hitting Ctrl + L again. Inserts a new timestamp into a transcript. Moves to the next/previous page of a PDF document. Moves to the beginning or the end of a PDF document. Zooms in or out of the document. Zooms the view to 100 %. Jumps to the next/previous tab. closes the current tab or the current view. "Media player toolbar F3 F3 Jumps to the next memo. 3

+ F3 F4 or F5 or 2xStrg F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 + F11 + F3 F4 or F5 or 2xStrg F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 + F11 Strg + L cmd + L/td> Alt + + M alt + + M Jumps to the previous memo. Plays or pauses the media file. Sets a clip start. Sets a clip end. Plays a clip. cancels the clip mark. Forward 5 seconds. Rewind 5 seconds. Insert a link start to the selected clip. Use the same keyboard combination to insert a link goal. Insert a memo at the current position of the media file. Table overviews, e.g. "Overview of coded segments ctrl + + E cmd + + E ctrl + + H cmd + + H ctrl + E cmd + E Del cmd + BackspacE Opens the table as Excel file in the standard program. Opens the table as HTML file in the standard internet browser. Opens the dialog window for exporting the table or view. Deletes the chosen row/s. MAXDictio Dictionary [only available in MAXQDA Plus and MAXQDA Analytics Pro] ctrl + + N ctrl + Alt + N cmd + + N cmd + alt + N ctrl + E cmd + E Del cmd + BackspacE creates a new category. creates a new search item. Opens the dialog window for exporting a dictionary. Deletes the chosen category. MAXDictio Stop list [only available in MAXQDA Plus and MAXQDA Analytics Pro] ctrl + N cmd + N creates a new word to be excluded. 4

ctrl + E cmd + E Del cmd + BackspacE Opens the dialog window for exporting the stop list. Deletes the focused items. File Management MAXQDA works with the following file types:.mx18.mx12.mx11.mx5.mx4.mx3.mx2.m2k.loa.sea.txt.rtf.mtr.mod.mex MAXQDA 2018 project file for and MAXQDA 12 project file for and MAXQDA 11 project file for MAXQDA 11 project file for MAXQDA 10 project file MAXQDA 2007 project file MAXQDA 2 project file MAXQDA 1 project file Saved formula files (activation by variables) Saved search files (SEArch file) Exported table file Exported texts, coded segments, and memos Exported Code System Exported MAXMAp MAXQDA Exchange file (MAX EXchange) Limitations and technical information MAXQDA sets very few limits. The following table informs about importable file formats and some limits within MAXQDA. Importable Text formats: RTF/D, DOC/X, ODT, PDF, TXT, HTML Importable Table formats: XLS/X Importable Image JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG formats: : MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, M4A Supported Audio formats: : MP3, WAV, AAC, CAF, M4A MP4, MOV, MPG, AVI, M4V, 3GP, 3GGP Supported Video formats: : WMV recommended Codec: H.264/AVC Twitter Import: Max. 10,000 tweets per import Twitter Analysis: No set limit to number of tweets Number of projects: No set limit Number of document No set limit groups: Groups of more than 1,000 are not recommended 5

Number of documents: Number of codes: Number of coded segments: Code System levels: No set limit. Dividing them into document with groups with max. 1,000 is recommended No set limit Above 200,000 coded segments the stability of MAXQDA cannot be guaranteed (if your computer has less than 4 GB RAM this threshold may be lower) Max. 10 What data volumes can be edited with MAXQDA? As the table overview above shows, there are very few technical limits to the data you can work with in MAXQDA. However, it should be noted that several thousand documents, codes and encodings in a project can affect the level of performance. It is therefore important to note some qualitative answers to the question of how many documents, codes, codings etc. you can process with MAXQDA. General answers are only partially helpful, and may differ in individual cases, since the performance of MAXQDA of course also depends on the hardware used. However, in practise, such issues only arise in very few instances, in which very large amounts of data need to be analyzed. They are certainly not common not for "standard" projects in qualitative or mixed-methods research. The following factors may influence the performance of MAXQDA - sometimes in combination: Number of documents in the "Document System" As a rule, several thousand documents will pose no problem for MAXQDA if they are organized in several document groups. So, for example, answers to open questions from (online) surveys with 1,000 cases (= documents) can be analyzed in MAXQDA with ease. Number of codes in the "Code System" Again, there is no technical limit: Several thousand codes can be processed, but certainly it is not easy to manage more than 2,500 codes from a research point of view. Number of coded segments per document Even 1,000 coded segments and more in a document rarely pose a problem. That being said, if the length of the text is very large or the codes are spread over a few PDF pages or paragraphs, it is recommended to hide individual coding stripes to allow for a 6

greater display speed. To do this, right-click in the gray area in which the coding stripes are displayed and select, for example, which colors should be displayed and which should be hidden. Length and contents of text documents If a single text document is very long, e.g. with more than 300 pages, it may take a few moments before the document is displayed. If such a document also contains a large number of codes (for example, more than 500), this can cause further delays. For text documents containing a large number of images (for example, more than 500) or very large (for example, 30 mega pixels) images, it may be better to import the document as a PDF document or split it into multiple documents. In this way, the performance speed can be increased when opening and editing these documents. Size of table documents For table documents, the time it takes to open the document depends on the number of rows/columns and the size of the cell contents. For 1,000 rows of 20 columns, it may take a few seconds for the document to open. The time to open is also affected by how many codes there are in the table. The coding and editing of cells in an open table document with 1,000 rows and 20 columns can then be completed without any delays. Number of tweets analyzed simultaneously The start of the Twitter analysis as well as the opening and filtering of tweets is still sufficiently fast even with 200,000 tweets. Only the compilation of word frequencies requires one to two minutes of computation time for this amount of data. System Requirements Operating System Microsoft 7 or higher / 10.9 (Mavericks) or higher Processor 1,3 GHz with 2 cores, recommended: 2 GHz or more with 2 cores or more 7

RAM 2 GB RAM, recommended: 4 GB or more Monitor 1.024 x 768, recommended: 1.280 x 768 or more Note: If you are working with challenging projects and/or large media files adequate computer hardware is recommended. To use the following features with, Microsoft Word 2003 or later and.net 3.5 or newer must be installed on the computer: Import of DOC/X or ODT files Smart Publisher export Import of web pages from MAXQDA Web Collector 8