Exporting Nodes for Close-in Analysis
Some researchers want to be able to export a node and its contents in order to examine the coded contents in more detail (and maybe using external software tools--such as those that enable unsupervised "network text analysis" and other approaches not currently available in NVivo). NVivo enables the exporting of nodes and their contents in several forms.
Exporting Nodes from NVivo
First, identify the desired node for export. Place the cursor on the node, and right-click on it. A dropdown menu will appear. Go to Export -> Export Node.
The Export Options window will open.
Users will be able to export the entire contents of the node as an html file, a reference (overview) as a .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, or .pdf, a summary view (similar to the view that the user sees inside NVivo when the node is double-clicked into and viewed textually) as .xls, .xlsx, .doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, or .pdf. Further, the user may select what properties of the node to include, whether related contents (like metadata) are desired, whether paragraph numbering should be included, and other features. Users also need to decide where to save the file.
Exporting Node Matrices
Whole node matrices may also be exported as .xlsx, .xls, .sav, .txt, and other files (think data tables that may be explored with various software programs, like Excel and SPSS). These capture not only particular nodes but also the interrelated node data.
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