Clean up your Document

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Clean up your Document

If you need to adjust and change typos or even complete Codes and Class structures, INTERACT offers some really helpful routines for that. The most important routines are described in:

oRename Codes, to correct typos and change expressions.

oChange Character Case, to unify your Code syntax.

oMove/combine Codes, to restructure and extend Codes and Classes.

oStructure Behavioral Events, to regroup your data.

Check your data file Content

Checking all corrections in a document is very time consuming. To speed up this process, use the Replace Codes functionality of INTERACT (even if you do not want to replace anything, yet):

Click Edit – Find & Replace - Replace Btn_Replace in the toolbar.

Select the first Class from the pull down menu.

Check the contents of the Code drop-down menu.

Proceed to the next Class, if all Codes are correct.

If you find an error, you can correct it like this:

Arrow-Right-OrangeTyping errors - If you find a misspelled Code in the pull down menu:

Select the wrong Code and enter the correct code into the field Replace with...

Replace the wrong Code, by clicking the Replace button at the bottom of the dialog.

For details on this routine, read Rename Codes.

Arrow-Right-OrangeStructural errors - In case you find a Code that should not be in that Class at all, you can correct this as follows:

Click Transform - Codes - Move and Combine btn_movecodes.

Select the Code(s) to be moved.

Enter the name of the Target Class or select it from the list.

Activate the option Wipe out source to remove the original data.

For further details, read Move / combine codes.

TIP:Use the command Start - Files - Merge Btn_MergeDocuments > to create one big compilation file, so you can run your checks over all codings in one pass. Read Merge Data for further details.