1. Open NVivo and go to the ‘Internals’ link

• To  help yourself stay organized right from the very begginning you may wish to create a folder.
• On the left search bar of your NVivo workspace you will find the sources for your documents. Right click ’Internals’.

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2. Import your documents

• Bring multiple documents into your folder by clicking the folder you just created.
• Navigate to the open blank space and do a right click. Select import >> import documents from the pop-up window.
• NVivo can import both .doc and .docx. It can also import text and text rich files.

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• Click ’Browse’ and select the documents you wish to import to NVivo.
• You can select multiple documents by clicking the control key while selecting your documents. Once your done selecting your documents click ’Open’

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• What NVivo will do now is creating a copy of each of those documents so you can  have a copy of this particulars projects in NVivo while your originals are safely stored in your computer.

3. View your documents

• Double click on the icons of each document to open it up and see the full text to the document available so you can start working on it.
• You can have multiple documents open.