how can a group of people fill in an excel  sheet from various loations?
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Share that Excel sheet where all the 12 can access. Then take turns to update the sheet.
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I imagine there are places to do it, however they are all illegal, as Excel is a licensed software product made by Microsoft.  If you are a college student, they offer a special version at around $20 on campuses...
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You may want to switch between shared and protected workbooks. Go to your Excel's Help and see the difference between the two. It will also help you set the workbook up how you want it.\n\nSHARED-   If you want several users to work in the same workbook simultaneously, you can save the workbook as a shared workbook. Users can then enter data, insert rows and columns, add and change formulas, and change formatting. How to set up a shared workbook.\n\nLimit viewing and editing of an individual worksheet\nWhen you protect the worksheet, the cells and graphic objects that you did not unlock in steps 2 and 3 are protected and cannot be changed.\n\nPROTECTED SHEETS-\nSwitch to the worksheet you want to protect.\n\nUnlock any cells that you want to be able to change after you protect the worksheet.
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Use Microsoft Excel or a slide-rule
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Well, this is my solution: (ignore the first paragraph)\nYou know, for a lazy bum, you have to deal well with it. First, whe they first get in front of the monitor, the computer should turn on it's own (perhaps you plant some tracing device in his body), then the computer would have call the program automatically and fill the data automatically and when he leaves the computer turns off automatically. The boss wouldn't need to move a finger to do this.\n\nOk, seriously. If possible, all of the processing should be done in one apps only (excel only or access only). And the boss should not be required to copy the data, perhaps you give him some database files that contains the data which access or excel would read as the data source and generate a report for it automatically, requiring the boss only to point where the database file is located to see the report.
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Use a database.\n\nwww.openoffice.org has a complete suite of office products. And it's free.
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http://www.officerecovery.com/excel/\n\nTry here if the help in Excel doesn't help.\n\nRegards\n\nRob
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As far as I know it's not possible. You'll have to use Word or a similar program like in OpenOffice.org
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. Make use of white space \n\nWhite space is the blank area that surrounds the data. Strangely, having white space surrounding your data makes your data appear more prominent on the page. \n\nWhether reading the spreadsheet on screen or printing it out, good use of white space should make your spreadsheet easier to look at and reduce eye-strain. \n\n2. Add borders where needed \n\nBorders on a spreadsheet, just like borders between countries define the sections of information that belong together. It makes it much easier to see at a glance all relevant information. For example a monthly budget may be broken up with borders around each week. That way you can see the budget for the month over all, but as each week has borders around it, you can also easily see what's happening on a weekly basis. \n\n3. Pick a font and stick with it \n\nThere's nothing worse than opening a spreadsheet and finding a hodge-podge of fonts thrown together for no particular reason. It looks unprofessional and can be quite hard to read. Pick one simple font to work with - preferably a common font that will be on any pc the spreadsheet is used on (eg Arial, Century Gothic or Times New Roman). Its also a good idea to choose san serif fonts (eg Arial) over serif fonts (Times New Roman) as they are easier to read. If your spreadsheet is for work, find out what the company preferred font is and use that exclusively. \n\nOnce you've picked your font, feel free to change the colour and size as necessary for emphasis. Using bold for headings and italics to highlight is a good idea - but don't go overboard. \n\n4. Size 8 font isn't a good plan \n\nThe smaller the font, the harder it is to read. While size 8 fonts might look just adorable, they're a nightmare to read for most people - even more so for those with eye problems. This is particularly important to keep in mind if you aren't the only person using or viewing the spreadsheet. Size 10 or even size 12 are much more user friendly (although perhaps not as cute!). \n\n5. Use the correct cell format \n\nCorrect cell formats can save a lot of time and effort. If you are planning on using a column for dates - select all the cells below the heading and format the cells as dates. Excel will then recognise anything you put in those cells as a date. So if you want the format to be 12th December 2003, all you'll need to type in those cells is 12/12/2003 - a huge time saver. \n\n. Colours are great for emphasis \n\nColoured Backgrounds work well with borders to distinguish headings from data, different types of sub-totals and totals, months, etc. Use caution, however, when choosing your colours - using a combination of a lime green background for headings with purple writing and eye popping red backgrounds for your data may not be the best combination. \n\nGenerally, if you are going to make use of any dark colours, they should only be used for headings and you should always use a pale colour for text on dark colours - white and pale grey are good for this purpose. \n\nAny colour used as a background for your data should preferably be a pale shade. \nUse common sense when choosing your colour palette - bad choices can make your spreadsheet down-right painful to look at. If you find you get a headache every time you open your spreadsheet, think about toning down your colours. \n\n7. Charts are a great addition to your spreadsheet \n\nManagement love charts! Why? Because they don't have to wade through oceans of data to get the information they need. At a glance they can see whether profits have risen or fallen. Busy people are far more likely to look at a chart than they are to read rows and rows of data. So, add a chart to your spreadsheet - your boss will love you for it! \n\n8. Think inside the box - Use more than one worksheet \n\nSpreadsheets are basically boxes that are either printed on box shaped paper, or viewed on a box shaped monitor. Try to keep this in mind when designi
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There are a lot of software libraries that do that:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/k9zah\n\nincluding some for Excel:\n\nhttp://tinyurl.com/hrda7
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You can use a spreadsheet. Then resort.\n\nAnother way is to put things in a regular word processing document and cut and paste into another one. \n\nDepends on what you prefer to do.
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I got this from http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/Excel/excel.html\n\nMicrosoft Excel is a member of the spreadsheet family of software. Spreadsheet software is used to store information in columns and rows which can then be organized and/or processed. Spreadsheets are designed to work well with numbers but often include text. Sometimes text in a spreadsheet is called a label, because it is labeling columns and rows of numbers. Numbers are called values sometimes, and can include numbers for counts or measurements, dates, times, and calculations from numbers. Spreadsheets can help organize information, like alphabetizing a list of names or other text or reordering records according to a numeric field. However, spreadsheets are more often used for calculating, such as totaling a column of numbers or generating a more sophisticated formula to calculate some statistical measure on a list of numbers. \nSpreadsheets and databases are in competition and have similar features. Yet the way they work in the background is different. When you work in a spreadsheet, you view the data you are entering as a section. In a database, you only see the data you are entering--you have to request a report or different display to see more of the information. Other differences are: (1) databases are more often used for applications with long textual entries, (2) very large applications (thousands of entries) are more often handled in databases; and (3) spreadsheets are easier to learn to use and get calculations from than a database program. This latter reason is why many researchers and students prefer spreadsheets for keeping track of their data over databases.\n\nIt is impossible to give a complete listing of applications that can be done in spreadsheets, but they include budgeting displays, checkbook registers, enrollment records, inventories, coded surveys, field and laboratory research data, and financial and accounting applications.\n\nThe capacities of Excel are as follows. You can have 256 columns of information. You can have up to 16,384 rows. That comes out to over 4,194,000,000 cells of information and that's only on the first sheet!!! You can have 16 sheets of information in one workbook, and the number of sheets can be increased, if needed. Excel refers to each file as a workbook, because there can be multiple sheets (pages) in one file.
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Try Microsoft Office templates.
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openoffice.org will do what you want
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I would suggest keep it simple.  You need a plain database ... use Microsoft Access, or even Excel.\n\nIf Excel, you need to be careful while structuring and entering data.  Since Excel is freeform (flexible), some discipline is required for good results.
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I personally use Powerpoint.\n\nYou can also use Word.  The business card sheets come with codes that you can input into whatever program you choose to use them for, so they line up for you.
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lotus is an older program. excel is best. but annoying when it comes to formulas.