Click on Add-ins on the left sidebar to see your Excel Add-ins settings.

Why is my left formula not working in excel. If youre still having an issue with drag-to-fill make sure your advanced options File Options Advanced have Enable fill handle checked. The result which was a value 0 before turned to 0. If the Excel LEFT function does not work properly in your worksheets its most likely because of one of the following reasons.

Check if your workbook is in manual calculation mode. The second reason why you see your formula instead of the result may be the Show Formulas option. You might also run into drag-to-fill issues if youre filtering.

Try removing all filters and dragging again. If your Excel formula is not working because a cell displays the function instead of the calculated value its because one of the following reasons. Num_chars argument is less than zero.

Jump into the affected cell mouse click or F2 and then immediately exit again. Click the File menu and select Options from the left sidebar. Show Formulas mode is turned on.

Excel thinks your formula is text. Ive been trying for half an hour to get a LEFTA19 formula to work in Excel 2010. If you leave this out Excel will simply treat the formula as text.

There are several sections that contain formulas that pull data from other cells some of these are simple calculations that sum two cells others are more complicated formulas. Reason 4 Dont Enclose. Go to tab Formulas then press with left mouse button on Calculations Options button.