The ATLAS.ti Interface
When you open a project, you see the menu on top, the project navigator on the left-hand side and an inspector on the right-hand side. The inspector displays more information of the current active entity. After just opening a project, this is the project.
Below the main menu, you see a toolbar that allows quick access to the Document, Quotation, Code, Memo and Network Manager.
You also find the usual show and hide icons for the side bars and the inspector.
The Main Menu
The Project menu gives access to all project related functions:
- opening, closing or renaming a project
- importing a project
- user management
- merging projects
- project export
- project export for universal data exchange
- exporting data for further statistical analysis
The Document menu gives access to all document related functions:
- Adding Documents
- Adding a Geo Deocument
- Importing Survey Data
- Importing Reference Manager Data
- Importing Twitter Data
- Showing the Document Manager
- Renumbering Documents and Quotations
- Importing Document Groups
- Exporting Document Groups
- Generating Reports
The Quotation menu gives access to all quotation related functions:
- Creating Quotations
- Applying Codes
- Finding Redundant Codings
- Unlinking all Codes from all Quotations
- Showing the Quotation Manager
- Showing the Link Manager
- Showing the Relation Manager
- Generating Reports
The Code menu gives access to all code related functions:
- Creating a new code
- Creating a new smart code
- Focus Group Coding
- Search & Code
- Showing the Code Manager
- Showing the Link Manager
- Showing the Relation Manager
- Showing the Code Forest
- Importing & Exporting a Code Book
- Generating Reports
The Memo menu gives access to all memo related functions:
The Network menu gives access to all network related functions:
The Analysis menu gives access to all analytic functions that you need after you have coded the data. You also find the Word List / Word Cloud option under this menu: