# General Request about BOM's as Excel (or similar) tables **URL:** \ **Category:** KOSMO MODULES\ **Created:** [June 28, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/general-request-about-boms-as-excel-or-similar-tables/1319 "2020-06-28T07:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
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KiCad does provide a way to export a BOM to various formats including a csv file. And Sam provides a csv/xlsx version of the BOM, at least he did for the 2399. But I would guess Sam doesn’t use KiCad’s BOM export because the 2399 BOM had errors in part quantities that wouldn’t have occurred. Nor am I surprised because generally the human readable export forms are only barely human readable; it’s why I wrote a [Markdown export script](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/kosmo-sequential-switch/1177/12). Besides, such a csv file would not contain specific part numbers unless those were put into the schematic (for each and every part individually, unless they were made part of a custom symbols library), and that is, as @devicex says, time consuming and, as @fredrik says, of limited utility. --- _[View the full topic](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/general-request-about-boms-as-excel-or-similar-tables/1319)._