Throughout MAXQDA, the little green plus sign indicates that you're creating something new. There's also an icon for a new document group, it looks like a little folder with the little green plus sign. So one way to create the document group is to right click on Documents in the Document system, and then select the option New document group. One rule of thumb is, if in doubt, right click. You'll see that there are multiple ways to do nearly everything in MAXQDA. But you can also create document groups for each site in a multi-site study, you can also reorganize them later, so don't worry too much about how you organize them at first. I often organize my documents based on the type of data they are, for instance, interviews or focus group transcripts. This is called a document group in MAXQDA. The first thing we want to do is create a folder for the documents we'll bring in. We'll do this in the document system Window on the upper left. Clicking on any one of them will reopen all four windows as well as arranging them on your screen. These will change the default arrangement of the display of the four Windows. Also, to the right of these icons, you'll see four little icons, each showing a different configuration of the four Windows on your screen. You can click on the icon to close or reopen each Window. The icons are shaded in gray when the corresponding Window is open. Note that when you're in the home menu, there are four icons that represent each of these four Windows. For instance, we don't need the retrieved segment Window right now since we aren't ready to do any searches, I'll close it by clicking on the little X in the upper right corner. You can even close the ones you're not working with, so you have a cleaner workspace. Note that you can resize these Windows and move them around however you'd like. Once you've coded some of your data and started searches, this is where your search results will appear. Finally, the Window on your right is the retrieved segments Window. Once you've brought data into the project which we'll do in a minute, you'll be able to review each document in the middle Window, the document browser Window. On the lower left, the code system is where you will create and define codes. On the upper left, you'll see the document system which is where you will store your data files. After you save the new project, the program will open up showing the four basic Windows. I'm going to call this project, Stories 1. By default, the program will save the project in the MAXQDA directory that was created when you installed the program, but you can put it wherever you'd like, just navigate to where you'd like to save it. Next, you need to name that project and navigate to where you would like it to be saved. Then you'll have the option of opening a new project, opening an existing project, or opening one of the examples that come bundled with the program. When you first open MAXQDA, you'll be asked to sign in.
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