The taxa, characters and states can simply be typed in one at a time. The item is typed into the Data Entry Box, followed by Return/Enter. Their order can be rearranged at any time.

If the lists already exist, it is also easy to import a text file to save retyping.
1. Entering the taxa, characters and states
2. NEXT Scoring the taxa for the characters
3. Attaching descriptive text, illustrations and multimedia