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.

It is very easy to dissect the contents of a cell in Excel using the functions LEFT, MID, and RIGHT. All three functions are easy to learn.

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, but we've selected the most popular, from date and time functions to mathematics and simple data manipulation.