If you already have Excel worksheets containing employee data, like overtime hours or production reports, you don't have to re-enter this information in a performance tracker.

Using Excel as a scheduling tool is a great skill to have under your belt. Learn how to use SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions.

You can convert daily data to weekly data in Excel by creating a pivot table, and grouping the rows in the pivot table in groups of seven days, or one week.