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New Functionality
Unicode
MAXQDA at a Glance
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One example would be the new link browser which gives you comfortable access to text links and therefore
completes the tabular overviews in MAXQDA. Furthermore, we would like to mention the extended possibilities
for the editing of attributes which can now be split-up into a variable view and a data view (similar to the
functionally in SPSS). The newly created extensive RTF support enables you to code even within single cells of
word tables.
MAXQDA 2007 is the first QDA software that consistently supports Unicode and therefore makes it possible to
not only edit texts in Japanese, Cyrillic, or Arabic but also codes and attributes (-names and –values). The
support of Unicode refers to all functions of MAXQDA2007 which might seem like an insignificant modification
at first glance but actually meant the re-writing of thousands of lines of source code.
Here are the new functions in detail:
General Functions
• A new “Logbook“ function allows you to protocol, for example, all work steps in form of a research diary.
• The new function “Search for Updates“ checks the MAXQDA website and informs you if your version is not
up to date any more. If you agree, the update procedure will be done automatically.
• Changed main menu: Many basic functions are now accessible not only through the context menus but
directly through the upper menu bar. Moreover a new menu option TEXT was inserted, which contains the
essential functions for the text management, e.g. “Import Text(s)“, “New Text Group“, or “Print Text“.
• The menu option CODES now gives direct access to a lot more functions that could only be reached
through context menus or the menu PROJECT > EXPORT before.
• The menu option MEMOS has been extended by several new functions. Memo-overviews can now be
accessed by the following selections: “My Code Memos“, “My Text Memos“, “Memos of the opened Text“.
• The “Lexical Search“ function has been integrated into the extended ANALYSIS menu, as well as functions
which refer to the RETRIEVED SEGMENTS WINDOW, e.g. the tabular overview for the coded segments,
the HTML table of the segments, as well as the option to print and export the coded segments.
• The menu option VISUAL TOOLS – already created with the introduction of MAXMaps – has been
extended: Aside from the tools already available in MAXqda2, you will find here the new visualization
functions TextPortrait, Codeliner, and TEXT COMPARISON CHART.
• The windows-standard menus for color selections are available for texts and codes in MAXQDA and
broaden the choice of different colors to more than one thousand.
The following innovations concern the overall functionality of MAXQDA; they are not confined to individual windows:
• There is a new “Reset Retrieval Functions“ button in the tool bar, which switches a lot of functions back to
default setting, e.g. the retrieval mode will switch to standard, all texts and codes will be deactivated,
weighting will be switched off, the selected colors in the selection of coding striped will be set back to
„select all colors“, etc.