When these are imported into NVivo you cannot edit them.
#Comparing groups nvivo 12 pdf#
To do this you would need to download a free print to pdf utility such as CutePDF and use it to produce the pdfs. The second is a tip for getting around this in NVivo and making sure NOBODY edits the files including yourself and that is to print them to pdf before you import and only import the pdf. There are ways to avoid this.įirstly if you have coded your data and are now going to take a clean copy for a friend to continue coding on I suggest you also take a backup copy of your set with which to compare it with, just in case you get itchy fingers. That meant he had to go away and transfer all the coding from his friend onto his data files before he could do the comparison. It took us a while to find out why it was doing it and it was in the end because he had made minor edits to the files after the copy was taken for his friend to code on. Thus making it very difficult to comparing coding schemes. The problem was that when he imported it into NVivo 9 it saw the documents in the two files as different documents. A student turned up this week wanting to compare his coding with that of another student. Right the first part is probably best told as a cautionary tale. The second is theoretical and I want to sound a warning over the use of a particular statistics use in Qualitative analysis for comparing codings by different raters. This is a blog in two halves, the first is totally practical and will tell you somethings you must note if you are going to compare codings.