Originally Posted by Psoewish
I made a very basic example of how you could do it. Something rather basic like tracking raid attendance is really easy. Excel could be described as word that works with tables and math for the average user. In fact I occasionally create regular documents in it because it's easier to format stuff 
If you don't have Excel (I think everyone does though), you can always get OpenOffice, which is free. I personally use it because I think it beats Excel :]
Anyway, this basic thing has the name of the player, name of maybe an alt, the hours of attendance and the total raiding hours. If you fill in the total raid hours and the hours per player, it will calculate the attendance %.
You can obviously replace hours by days, or add that to it using the hours example to have an overview of both and stuff.
I can't seem to attach a .xls file to my post so I uploaded it somewhere else 
http://uploading.com/files/57RT0A57/example.xls.html
You'll need to wait about a minute to be able to click download but it's better than nothing :P |
Don't count out
Google Documents - as the spreadsheet could be setup to have raid leaders (if more than one) edit the document all in 1 easy place online.
You could also use something like
http://evernote.com/ if you wanted to be able to have access to it anywhere your were w/ internet access.
I found this too:
http://qdkp.nzaperture.com/ I don't know if it's updated for WoTLK or not though.