# How to use template to eliminate text within a string

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**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 11:42am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-use-template-to-eliminate-text-within-a-string/33017 "2021-10-13T11:42:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-use-template-to-eliminate-text-within-a-string/33017/2 "2021-10-13T11:59:28Z")

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Yeah you’re right, we can’t dynamically use a field to replace it with something else. It only works for the right hand side where you use a column to replace a fixed term.

> [@An EASIER and LEANER Trebuchet Method for Multiselect](https://community.glideapps.com/t/an-easier-and-leaner-trebuchet-method-for-multiselect/32241):
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> No more ifComma columns, template columns or series of Set Column actions to add and remove items from a multiselect list. [[Glide: A BETTER Trebuchet Method for Multiselect] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cdxcucCysg) Thanks to @Jeff_Hager for the inspiration!

Please check this post from Bob.

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