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Tick — task checklist spreadsheet

A to-do list that knows what's late: task, category, priority, due date and a ✓ when done; status (Done, Overdue, Today, Soon, Open), days left and a progress bar are calculated. Pro adds a Focus sheet listing what's overdue and due this week, a Board with counts per category, person and priority, and a formulas walkthrough. No macros.

  • XLSX
  • No macros
  • COUNTIFS
  • INDEX/MATCH
  • Conditional formatting
  • Google Sheets

The sheets

  1. 01
    Tasks

    150 rows: task, category and priority from dropdowns, due date, ✓ to finish. Status and days left against an 'as of' date; done rows greyed and struck through, overdue red, due today or soon yellow. Tasks, done, overdue and progress with a bar at the top.

    Free + Pro
  2. 02
    Focus

    Ten overdue and ten due-soon tasks with due date, priority and days — found by INDEX/MATCH on numbered helper columns, no array formulas. Done in the last 7 days, open with no date.

    Pro
  3. 03
    Board

    Category × status counts with progress bars; open, overdue and done per person and per priority.

    Pro
  4. 04
    Setup

    As-of date, due-soon horizon, categories, priorities, people.

    Pro
  5. 05
    Formulas

    Twelve formulas explained: the status chain, the running-count numbering, the lookups, why '<>Done' is done by subtraction.

    Pro

Built for

  • Excel 2016+
  • Google Sheets
  • Numbers

Every workbook is recalculated in LibreOffice and by a second, independent formula engine on the sample data; the totals are compared with numbers worked out outside any spreadsheet, and every formula cell is scanned for errors. We don't run Excel itself on the build machine, so this says built for, not tested in — open the live preview to see the numbers the formulas produce.

Pro

$9

Every page, the Pro-only pages, the source files, no attribution, and 12 months of updates and email support.

Task list with status, days left, progress bar
yes
Owner and done-on columns
yes
Focus: overdue and due-this-week lists
yes
Board: counts per category, person, priority
yes
Lists on Setup instead of inline
yes
Formulas walkthrough sheet
yes
Credit line on the sheet
not required
Updates and support
12 months, email

Licence

Use it for unlimited personal and commercial purposes, including client work.
Do not resell the spreadsheet itself, alone or in a bundle.

Full licence terms →

A to-do list that knows what’s late

Most task templates are a table with a checkbox. This one has an “as of” date, and every row compares its due date to it: before is Overdue, equal is Today, within a week is Soon. Put a ✓ in Done and the row greys out and stops counting. The top of the sheet keeps the score — tasks, done, overdue, progress with a bar.

The ✓ comes from a dropdown rather than a native checkbox because checkboxes are new in Excel, absent in older versions and different in Numbers; a validated cell works everywhere, and any mark counts.

Pro: Focus and Board

Focus is the sheet you’d open on Monday: the overdue tasks, then what’s due today or this week, each with its date, priority and days — and how many you finished in the last seven days. Board counts tasks per category and status with progress bars, and per person and priority. Setup holds the date, the horizon and the three dropdown lists.

Lists without FILTER

“Show me the overdue tasks” is a filter — and FILTER doesn’t exist in Excel 2016 or Numbers. Instead, a helper column numbers the overdue tasks 1, 2, 3 with a running COUNTIF, and Focus looks up number 1, 2, 3 with INDEX/MATCH. The same trick lists what’s due soon. Both columns are visible on Tasks, greyed, explained on the Formulas sheet.

Checked, not just built

The build recalculates both workbooks in LibreOffice and in a second, independent engine and compares forty-nine values — every status on the sample list, days left, the summary, the helper numbering, the Focus lists row by row, the Board counts — against numbers computed outside Excel.

Free download

  • tick.xlsx · Tasks sheet
  • README.md · LICENCE.txt

Pro download

  • tick-pro.xlsx · Tasks, Focus, Board,
  • Setup, Formulas
  • README.md · LICENCE.txt (Pro)

Read before you build

Version history

  • 1.0.02026-09-12

    First release

  • 0
    macros
  • 12
    formulas explained
  • 49
    checks the build runs
  • 150
    task rows

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