Microsoft Word macro to shorten characters?

[linkjg]

I have a task that I'm doing daily, and I thought that maybe a macro could help speed things up.

On a Word document after the words "Skill:" I have to shorten the characters after the last colon by 7 characters

Is there a fast way to do this with a macro? How could I do that?

Thanks!

[NukedWhale]

Excel has some pretty good text trimming functions. To trim the 7 rightmost characters you could paste the texts to be trimmed into excel and then use the function

=left(Cell to be trimmed, len(Cell to be trimmed)-7)

[linkjg]

I'd rather not have to take this into Excel and shorten the characters there. But, thanks for your suggestion. I'm looking for something I can do within Word.