In addition to pasting gene identifiers into EASE, you can load a list of identifiers from any ASCII text file, but not directly from a word processor or spreadsheet file. To use identifiers from a word processor or spreadsheet file, either cut-and-paste them into EASE or save the file in text format first. For example, to save a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet as text, open the spreadsheet file with Excel, choose "Save As..." from the "File" menu

then choose "Text(tab-delimited)(*.txt)" from the "Save as type:" drop-down box.

EASE can automatically extract all identifiers from a text file that are delimited by any combination of tabs, commas, spaces, semicolons or newlines.

Note that identifiers from multiple files are be sequentially appended to the list to be analyzed. The same is true for identifiers pasted from the clipboard. If there are identifiers that you want removed before analysis, they can be manually removed from the paste box, or removed using the "Refine" function of EASE.