NVivo is designed so you can easily see and manage all the elements of your project.
You can also customize the workspace to suit the way you work.
The NVivo workspace is made up of three views.
This view provides access to all your project items.
Items are organized under group buttons such as Sources, Nodes, Sets and so on.
When you click on a folder in NavigationView, its contents are displayed in ListView.
In NavigationView you can:
Add folders for sources, queries or models.
Cut, copy and paste user folders.
Drag items from List View into the required folders.
This view displays the contents of your folders.
You can double-click an item inList View to open it in Detail View.
In List View you can:
Sort items (by clicking on the column headings)
Add selected items to sets
Delete, cut, copy, paste, print and export items
In this view you can explore the content of your project items.
For example, in DetailView you can
Open a source to examine and code its content
Open a node to see all the content gathered there
Examine the results of a query
You can have multiple items opened in DetailView and use the tabs to move between them.
To close an item, click the 
in the top-right of the DetailView.
To close all open items, click Close All on the Window menu.
The menu bar is at the top of the application window. Menus are 'context sensitive' and change depending on the items or views you are working with — for example, the Media menu only appears on the menu bar when you are working with an audio or video file.
You can access all NVivo functions via the menus on the menu bar.
Context (right-click) menus are also available throughout the application. You can access the most frequently-used functions via the context menus.
For fast access to many functions, you can use the following toolbars:
Use the View toolbar to adjust display settings for your sources and nodes:
Use the Grid toolbar to set display options for matrices or the project casebook:
Use the Media toolbar to run your audio and video files, control volume, select sections in the file, and transcribe while on play mode:
You can hover over a toolbar button to see a brief description of its use.
The status bar—the horizontal area at the bottom of the NVivo window—provides information about the current state of what you are viewing in the window and any other contextual information. For example, it shows the current user initials, number of items in a selected folder, the progress of document import or duration of an open audio/video source.
