This is my first shot at a FIRST BOM. The given sheet does not inspire me with confidence that there are more than mundane Excel skills in Manchester, NH.
I filled in the team number and get it formatted as a dollar amount. Not that the $2170 dollars would be turned down if offered.
On to the date, I enter the Excel function now() so that the date displayed will turn into the latest time I save the workbook. I get a decidedly non-date display for the result.
I can reformat both cells, but why weren't they set in the template? The sheet's date should be automatic by default. I'm always put off by Captain Kirk starting off his logs by quoting the stardate; as if 25th century computers had lost the ability to compute it?
I made a couple of obvious column width adjustments too. Doesn't the description deserve to be wider?
On one of the blank sheets in the workbook, I pasted the GDC answers to a couple of the more pertinent questions form the forum topics; renaming it to GDC clarifications.
Does anyone have a partly filled in sheet they can share so we can see how things should go? Does anyone know if the inspector(s) expect to keep the flash drive on which the BOM is submitted? I saw that there was one in the KOP. I have urged the team members to backup their programs onto it at agonizingly regular intervals. It seems that computer users must be stung by lost data to believe they need to make alternate copies at regular intervals. aaaah well.