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Best way to remove leading zeros from a non-numeric value in Excel

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Mar 15, 2026122578 views
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I have many cells in an Excel sheet, using 9 characters of 0-9 and A-Z, that have some number of prefixed zeros: I'd like to remove the leading zeros so that the values become: How would I do this in an Excel formula? I'd prefer to avoid use of a VBA macro.

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Here's a solution that's cell-intensive but correct. Put your data in column A. In B1, put the formula: This checks for a single leading zero and strips it out. Copy this formula to the right as many columns as there can be characters in your data (…

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