Need to be able to add data in list form

In a campaign setting, be it political or a nonprofit fundraising campaign, actions may apply to wide swath of users. Having to go in and do an "edit profile" for each is not manageable. Or, take the situation where a volunteer is calling through a phone list. They will spend more time going in and out of the profile edit screens then dialing. It would be great if there was a way to get an easily editable (think spreadsheet) layout of users so said volunteer could just go down the phone list typing in their call codes- "no answer" "left message" "wrong #" "Not interested," etc. then save at the end, rather than for each user profile. Maybe this would be a function of "create a list" from a search.