Once you have made a decision on the kind of data you want your online time and attendance to provide you with you need to start thinking about the way in which the report is to be laid out. Certainly the best program to use for setting up an employee attendance tracking program is Windows Excel. The only draw back is that you won’t be able to fit every single working day on to one spreadsheet as unfortunately each sheet only contains 256 columns. Whereas if you were to times 52 x 5 (weeks by working days) you will need a total of 260 columns.