By placing a zero before the decimal, the number is more readily recognized as less than one. By configuring a custom number format you can tell Excel to remove leading zeros.

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.