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10 Task List Templates for Excel

The work-side sheets in one place: every task list here has an owner, a status dropdown, and a due date, and every one does its own counting \u2014 by status, by priority, by person, or by day \u2014 with overdue rows turning red. No macros, no add-ins. Each card also opens as a Google Sheets copy with the formulas verified after conversion.

The Excel task fleet

Ten task sheets, every count working.

Task List — owner, due, priority, status

Red overdue rows, by-status counts, percent complete. The starting point.

With Subtasks — two levels

Task rows go bold; progress counts the subtasks.

Employee — by-person summary

Team names feed the dropdown and the assigned/done counts.

Project — WBS and % complete

Start and due per task; the project percent averages the tasks.

Tracker — dashboard

Days left counts down; by status, by priority, overdue, percent.

Management — three tabs

Tasks, Dashboard, Lists. Owners and categories from one place.

Log — hours total

Requested by, assigned to, hours, completed; totals at the bottom.

Assignment — acknowledged

Assign for a period, tick acceptance, per-person summary, signatures.

Weekly Planner — tasks by day

Self-dating day columns, X marks, planned-per-day counts.

Daily — for work

Must-dos, time and client per task, meetings, carry to tomorrow.
Worth knowing

Status dropdowns are the whole system.

Every sheet here uses the same four statuses — Not started, In progress, Waiting, Done — and every count is built on them. That is not a limitation; it is what lets the dashboards work and what lets you move rows between sheets without rewriting anything. Add a status only if a count depends on it, and add it to the dropdown, never as free text.

Waiting is the status that pays for the whole exercise. A task list without it hides blocked work inside In progress; a list with it shows, in one count, how much of the team’s week is stuck behind someone else.

The personal lists in Excel
Excel To-Do Lists
Daily, weekly, simple, cute, checklist — with the ✓ count.
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The same ten in Drive
Google Sheets To-Do Lists
Make-a-copy versions of every list.
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Hours, not tasks
Timesheet Templates
The same working-formula treatment for time.
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Frequently asked questions

Which Excel task list should I start with?
The plain task list if one person or a small group needs owners, due dates, and status. The task tracker if you want a dashboard and a days-left countdown on the same sheet. The task management workbook if a team needs shared owner and category lists across tabs. The others are shaped for a situation — subtasks, employees, a project, a log, a handoff, a week, a day.
Do the formulas survive Google Sheets?
Yes. The counts are COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, SUMPRODUCT, AVERAGE, and TODAY, which convert exactly; we import a sample-filled copy of each sheet after every rebuild and read the computed cells back — the task list's 33%, the tracker's overdue count, the log's hours total — before the page goes live.
Can I combine these into one workbook?
Yes: right-click a sheet tab, Move or Copy, and pick another workbook. Each sheet's formulas reference its own columns, so they keep working after the move. The task management workbook is the pre-combined version — a master list, a dashboard, and lists on three tabs.
Why do these say task list and not to-do list?
Because the searches mean different things. A to-do list is personal and usually printed; a task list has owners and status and lives in a spreadsheet. The to-do lists — daily, weekly, simple, cute, checklist — are on the Excel to-do list page; this page is the work side.
Updated through September 2026