Some Notes on CAQDAS

I am writing some notes for myself after reading through Lewins and Silver's article on CAQDAS package. These are by and large what I will be focusing on in the class.

1. The graphic visualisation of connections and processes using mapping tools (p.2): I am looking forward to discovering how it is similar to/differenet from the drawing tool in MS-Word (which I am most familiar with);
2. Variables structure of coding (on the left down of the window print-screen [on p.34 down]): this makes a lengthy textual input so much clearer;

Also, I have some questions:
1. Can I save the document into .txt so that I can continue the work in the library (where it may not have the CAQDAS built-in)? or I really need to have a copy of CAQDAS in order to process my qualitative data...
2. Searching and interrogating the database in QDA Miner 1.3. (p.36-38) is not that clear to me, and I want to know how the database will work for me, and why it can be user-friendly in the data processing.