NVivo Preferences - General

NVivo lets you set a range of General preferences—for example, you can update your user profile information and choose whether you want to participate in the Customer Experience Improvement program.

Preference	Explanation
Name	The user name associated with your default NVivo user profile. Your default NVivo user profile is used to create your project user profile in projects. Refer to Create, view or change user profiles for more information.
Initials	The initials associated with your default NVivo user profile. If you change the initials, it applies to any new projects you create. To change your initials in an existing project, refer to Create, view or change user profiles (Change the initials associated with my project user profile).
Display "Welcome to NVivo" window on launch	Display the Welcome to NVivo window each time you launch NVivo.
Prompt for user on launch	Prompt users to provide their user name and initials every time they launch NVivo. This is useful if team members logon to a computer using a shared user account. When each team member enters their own NVivo user name and initials, then you can track their work in the project separately. Refer to About teamwork for more information.
Code whole words	This option is not available for this release—only the text you actually select is coded.
Narrow	Click this button to view or change the narrow reach settings for different types of source material—the default settings are: Text—five words on either side of coded text in documents, PDFs, memos and externals Media—0.05 seconds on either side of coded media in audio and video sources Transcript—5 words on either side of coded text (within a cell) in an audio or video transcript Region—5% around coded regions in pictures and PDF sources (not available in this release) Log—five words on either side of coded text (within a cell) in picture logs (not available in this release Dataset—the cell surrounding coded text in datasets (not available in this release)
Broad	Click this button to view or change the broad reach settings for different types of content—the default settings are: Text—the paragraph surrounding coded text in documents, PDFs, memos and externals Media—0.20 seconds on either side of coded media in audio and video sources Transcript—the cell surrounding coded text in audio and video transcripts Region—20% around coded regions in pictures and PDF sources (not available in this release) Log—the cell surrounding coded text in picture logs (not available in this release) Dataset—the row surrounding coded text in datasets (not available in this release)
Help	For this release, you cannot change your preferences for Help.
Participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program	By selecting this option, you can help to improve the features, quality, and performance of NVivo. Clear this check box, if you do not want to participate. For more information, refer to Participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program.