Removing portions of text in excel

kdiala

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I need help on removing sections of text out of a huge workbook I'm building. For example, it currently reads this in one of them (they all follow the same pattern):

• Examine: Access control policy; procedures addressing account management; security plan; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; list of active system accounts and the name of the individual associated with each account; list of conditions for group and role membership; notifications or records of recently transferred, separated, or terminated employees; list of recently disabled system accounts along with the name of the individual associated with each account; access authorization records; account management compliance reviews; system monitoring records; system audit records; other relevant documents or records; list of devices and other systems authorized to connect to organizational systems.
• Interview: Personnel with account management responsibilities; system or network administrators; personnel with information security responsibilities.
• Test: Organizational processes account management on the system; mechanisms for implementing account management.

I need it to just have the bullet for examine and remove all the text related to the interview and test bullet points. So it would wind up like this-
• Examine: Access control policy; procedures addressing account management; security plan; system design documentation; system configuration settings and associated documentation; list of active system accounts and the name of the individual associated with each account; list of conditions for group and role membership; notifications or records of recently transferred, separated, or terminated employees; list of recently disabled system accounts along with the name of the individual associated with each account; access authorization records; account management compliance reviews; system monitoring records; system audit records; other relevant documents or records; list of devices and other systems authorized to connect to organizational systems.

Is there a way to avoid doing this manually? I've got 600+ rows and they all have varying comments and text lengths.

Thanks!
 

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Hi there. I'm making a few assumptions here but if the complete text is in a single cell, and the Interview: keyword is present in all cells (you said they all follow the same pattern), then this formula will work for the contents of cell B12:
=LEFT(B12,FIND("• Interview:",B12)-2)

If ive misunderstood the structure of your data please add some more info and I'll try again.
 
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