Recurring Task Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet is a special computer-driven table with unlimited number of rows and columns to list and manage different matters with a purpose of mathematical, statistical, financial and other types of calculations. When we speak about using recurring task spreadsheets we mean their capabilities in the sphere of recording tasks where their unlimited rows are for tasks entries and columns are for their attributes (priorities, target dates, etc). Sometimes we need to plan recurring (repeating) tasks while working at our projects and carrying out our daily activities. Let’s consider how well some of spreadsheet managers can cope with this task.

Recurring tasks Excel-based solutions:

The most well-known product for managing spreadsheets is popular MS Excel that can be perfectly used for “to-do” listing your agendas and projects, but recurring tasks in Excel have no easy ways to be established. Actually recurring tasks Excel spreadsheet capabilities are not delivered with its initial toolset, but they need to be added by installing some specific task management Excel plug-ins enabling to set up recurring tasks. 

Such recurring task managers for Excel can be found on the Web and downloaded for free (if developed by Excel-enthusiasts) or as a paid addition (developed by different commercial companies), also if you are good enough at Excel programming methods, then you can develop Excel recurring tasks function yourself, so as you can see recurring task spreadsheet in MS Excel is not something that is really advisable to employ for using daily if you want to make your life a little bit easier and much more organized with effective recurring task management approaches. 

Alternative to recurring task lists by Excel:

VIP Task Manager is a client-server product that serves its users with a help of recurring task spreadsheet (Task List mode) which can list thousands of your tasks recorded along with dozens of their attributes. It features the following essential functions:

• Inbuilt task recurrence function (no need to install any kind of additional modules, etc);
• Rich set of standard and custom task attributes (this is a special program for task management, so you do not need to adjust it massively to fit your business purposes);
• Inbuilt Task List mode (flexible and adjustable interface mode to let you displaying your tasks by their assignments, time scopes, categories, priorities, etc);
• Inbuilt collaborative server component delivered for free along with standard setup file;