Time Tracking for Microsoft Excel

Track time inside Excel without switching apps

Your team opens Excel for financial models, client budgets, and data work. Most of that time never makes it into a timesheet. TrackingTime runs as a browser extension inside Excel, so every session gets a timer, every timer connects to a project and client, and billable hours show up in your reports without any manual entry.

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Excel is where financial models get built, budgets get tracked, and client deliverables get assembled. For most professional teams, significant billable time happens inside Excel: modeling for a client, reconciling project costs, building dashboards, preparing reports. But Excel doesn't track the hours spent doing that work. Spreadsheets close and time disappears. Teams reconstruct the week from memory, billable time gets estimated, and the gap between what was worked and what gets billed grows wider with every project cycle. TrackingTime closes that gap from inside Excel. Install the browser extension, open your spreadsheet, and a timer is ready when you are. Hours log to the right project and client without leaving the file. When the session ends, the time is already in your timesheet, attributed correctly, and ready for billing.

How do I track time in Microsoft Excel?

To track time in Microsoft Excel, install the TrackingTime browser extension and open Excel on the web. A timer appears inside the app. Start it when you open a spreadsheet and stop it when the session ends. Hours log automatically to the right project and client without switching to a separate tool or filling in anything manually after the fact.

Does TrackingTime work as a Microsoft Excel add-in?

TrackingTime is not a native Excel add-in. It works as a browser extension that runs inside Excel on the web, the same way it runs in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and every other Microsoft 365 app. One extension covers the entire suite without installing anything separately in each application.

Can I replace my Excel timesheet with TrackingTime?

Yes. TrackingTime replaces manual Excel timesheets with real-time tracking. Hours log as you work instead of being reconstructed at the end of the week. Budget tracking, client billing, approvals, and payroll exports are all built in, so you are not building those manually in a spreadsheet anymore.

Can I export time data from TrackingTime to Excel?

Yes. TrackingTime exports timesheets and reports directly to Excel by project, client, team member, or billing period. Your finance team can open the file in Excel for any additional analysis or formatting your operation requires.

Does TrackingTime track time across all Microsoft 365 apps?

Yes. The TrackingTime browser extension runs inside every Microsoft 365 app on the web: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and the rest. One extension, one account, time tracked wherever your team works.

Can I connect TrackingTime to Power BI?

Yes. TrackingTime connects to Power BI so tracked hours become live dashboards. You can also export data to Excel first if your finance team prefers to process it there before loading it into Power BI or other reporting tools.

HOW TO TRACK TIME IN MICROSOFT EXCEL

Start tracking time directly in Excel.

Add time tracking to Microsoft Excel in three steps. No add-in installation. No Excel configuration. Just the browser extension.

1

Sign up to TrackingTime

Create your free account. Once you're in, your projects and clients are ready to connect to Excel and every other Microsoft 365 app your team uses.

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Install the browser extension

Add the TrackingTime extension to your browser. It runs inside Excel on the web and the full Microsoft 365 suite automatically once installed.

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Track time inside Excel

Open your spreadsheet and log in. The timer is ready inside the app. Start it, work, stop it when the session ends. Hours land in your timesheet without switching tabs.

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HOW YOUR TEAM USES EXCEL

Track the time your team spends in Excel.

Financial modeling, budget reviews, client deliverables. Most Excel work is billable. TrackingTime tracks every session from inside the spreadsheet.

Financial modeling and budget work

Financial models, cost analysis, and budget reviews take hours. Most of that time gets absorbed into a flat weekly estimate. TrackingTime logs every modeling session to the right client and project so the hours your finance team puts into Excel show up in billing, not in a rounding error.

Client deliverables and reporting

Spreadsheets built for clients — dashboards, data exports, financial summaries — are some of the most time-intensive deliverables an agency produces. TrackingTime tracks every session so that work gets billed at the right rate, attributed to the right project, without reconstructing it at the end of the week.

Data analysis and operations

Analysts and ops teams spend significant hours in Excel preparing, cleaning, and validating data. TrackingTime captures that work automatically so it shows up in capacity reports, budget tracking, and client billing instead of disappearing into overhead.

TRACKINGTIME FOR EXCEL USERS

What changes when time tracks itself.

You stay in Excel. TrackingTime handles the rest.

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No manual entry

The timer runs while you work. When the spreadsheet closes, the hours are already logged.

Every session attributed correctly

Hours go to the right client, project, and budget automatically. No end-of-week reconstruction.

Billable time doesn't slip through

Excel work that never made it into a timesheet starts showing up in billing. Every session, every client, every week.

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Capacity you can actually see

See how much of your team’s work goes into Excel per client and project, and compare against budget and estimates.

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One place for all your tracked time

Excel sessions, Teams calls, Word docs, Outlook meetings. All in the same workspace, all connected to the same projects.

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Reports ready without extra work

Timesheets, client reports, and budget summaries generate from tracked data. No spreadsheet assembly required.

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