The weekly status report is the most-rebuilt document in project management — and the least necessary to rebuild. This Excel template gives you a fixed, professional format: fill in five sections, send it, and give stakeholders the same clean report every Friday.

What a good status report contains

Not everything — that’s the mistake. A report people read has: overall health, what moved this week, what moves next week, current risks, and asks. This template structures exactly that, which keeps the report short enough to be read and consistent enough to be compared week over week.

What’s inside the template

• A one-page weekly format with health indicator, progress, plans, risks, and asks
• Consistent layout so this week’s report lines up against last week’s
• Ready to print or paste into an email

How to use it

1. Duplicate the sheet each week — the structure carries over.
2. Fill the five sections in ten minutes.
3. Send the same format every week; stakeholders learn where to look.

All our templates run in Microsoft Excel 2010 or later on Windows. They use macros for their built-in automation — when you first open one, click Enable Content in the yellow bar and everything works.

Get the template

Download the Weekly Project Status Report Template — $6.99, one-time payment, lifetime use, backed by our refund guarantee. It arrives as an instant download with a quick-start guide.

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