Dumb question alert! What program to use?

[Merrimaid104]

Hi. I'm trying to keep track of the amount of litter collected from various beach cleans - I've got an excel spreadsheet to use to total it up for each group so that we can input it to the Marine Conservation Society database, but we want to keep our own 'running tally' so that we can see what impact we have over the year. So I'm trying to work out the easiest way to do this. I know I can have a 'master' excel workbook that I just add in the latest summary sheet after each event, but I feel like there should be some form of database program where I can just import the excel summary sheet from each event and it will add in what's been found and allow us to get reports on the cumulative total of the different items/categories etc. What am I looking for???