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Clip From Column

About Clip From Column

Clip From Column removes all data to the right or left of a selected column.

Using Clip From Column

  1. Select ‘Clip From Column’ from the Operations menu.
  2. Select a column to be the Clip Column. All columns to the left or right of the Clip Column will be removed.
  3. Select a Clip Direction: left or right.

Example

In the table below some notes on ‘LOB types’ have been added to the right of the data we require, so need to be removed.

ID
LOB
Amount
LOB types
1
car
100
Car insurance
2
life
1000
Life insurance
3
car
100
 

Select ‘Amount’ as the Clip Column and ‘Right’ as the direction. This results in:

ID
LOB
Amount
1
car
100
2
life
1000
3
car
100

Alternatively, to remove all columns to the left of the ‘Amount’ column, select ‘Left’ as the direction:

Amount
LOB types
100
Car insurance
1000
Life insurance
100