Want to delete or truncate numbers to the left in Excel? Learning how to remove numbers in Excel from the left is a neat trick to automate subtracting unwanted digits.

You can remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces between characters and numbers in Excel using TRIM(), SUBSTITUTE() or Find and Replace.

Microsoft Excel depends on data that’s stored correctly. If you receive text values that should be real numbers, use one of these methods to get you back to the real work.