Importing .cha files to Nvivo

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Kevin,
     Could you please tell us how you did it in the end.  I can put this into the CHAT manual, I guess.  NVivo has been its own world since the beginning.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Jul 18, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Mcmanus K. <K.McManus at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks, Leonid. Unfortunately NVivo doesn't appear to offer that possibility. We spent a while fiddling and have found a way, but nothing that straightforward. I was curious if there was an option similar to RTFIN, but that in fact did the opposite, so converting CHAT to Word.
> 
> All the best
> Kevin
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> From: chibolts at googlegroups.com [chibolts at googlegroups.com] on behalf of Leonid Spektor [spektor at andrew.cmu.edu]
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> Subject: Re: Importing .cha files to Nvivo
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> .cha are plain text files encoded in Unicode UTF-8 format. If Nvivo like MS Word allows to select text encoding during opening file process, then you can just select Unicode UTF-8 and it should open .cha files correctly.
> 
> Leonid.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:40, Mcmanus K. wrote:
> 
> Dear all
> 
> We’re trying to load bulleted .cha files in Nvivo 10, but it’s quite a tricky job. The program does not accept. Cha files. We’ve tried changing the .cha files to .txt. files (using Notepad ++), but then accents (for French/Spanish e.g.) are lost or changed to numbers etc. The only way we’ve found so far is by copying .cha contents into Word individually, then saving a transcript as .doc. Does anybody know of a quicker way load. Cha files into Nvivo? Any advice would be most gratefully received.
> 
> Best wishes
> Kevin
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