About the Casebook

The casebook is a table containing your cases and the attribute values that have been assigned to them.

You can build the casebook in NVivo by:

Adding attributes and values (under Classifications in Navigation View)
Adding cases (under Nodes in Navigation View)

Or, if you have information about your cases and attributes in a spreadsheet or a statistics package, you can save it as a tab-separated text (.txt) file and import it into NVivo.

You can also export the casebook for use in other applications.

Working with the Casebook

In the casebook you can:

Add new attribute values
Filter the casebook display. For example, you could display only those cases defined as female who aretertiary educated.

You can access your cases directly from the casebook. To open a case, right-click on the selected case or cell and select Open Case from the context menu.

Adding to the Casebook

You can import new cases, attributes or attribute values into the casebook. When you import a text file, NVivo adds new items and updates existing items.