Attendance charts can be used for several different purposes. Whether tracking students' attendance for school, or for employers tracking the attendance of employees during important work meetings or seminars.There are many different free printable attendance charts on the internet. The easiest formats to open and alter are be PDF formats. Other file formats can depend on computer software, and
. thus may be more of a hassle when trying to print. Due to the large variety of attendance charts available, its best to look through image files and choose the most fitting version that is suitable for specific needs.The best printable school attendance charts have a column for names and a row across the top for dates. There should be enough room in each cell for a mark such as "A" for "absent," "T" for "tardy," or any other informative mark, if the instructor so desires. Some attendance charts have extra space for comments as well as cells for calculating the total of missed days. Charts that do feature the extra cells in an effort to calculate total number of tardies and absences can be a helpful tool for a teacher to track students' attendance over a long period of time.For charts used for attendance taken at meetings or seminars, different information columns might be needed like contact information such as email addresses and phone numbers. This information is essential in case there is a desire to contact the absent or late person in question, to inquire about their whereabouts. There also should be a slot for times in which the attendee arrived and left, and space for comments or other information.A browser search may be completed for more attendance chart templates for use in other circumstances that the previous two examples do not adequately apply to. For more information, please see:http://www.reference.com/browse/chart