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

To fix this issue, remove the text and add the cost price. If you are using the Sum function, it will ignore the text and add the numbers of the two items in the spreadsheet.

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.

You can subtract numbers in Microsoft Excel in a few different ways, depending on your data and formatting.