Click on the cell containing a minuend a number from which another number is to be subtracted. To do so click a cell type in a number and press Enter or Return. Once you select the cell begin to type your formula.
Follow these steps to subtract numbers in different ways.
Subtract Multiple Cells Using No Formula. Select cell A3 with the mouse pointer to add that cell reference to the formula. In Excel you will not find any function called SUBTRACT that will perform the subtraction operation. In excel we do not have any inbuilt formula for subtraction or minus we use minus operator - to do the arithmetical subtraction in excel to subtract two values from each other we need to also use the equals to operator to make minus a formula for example value 1- value 2 is a minus formula where we subtract value 1 from value 2 note that the values should be in the same format to avoid error in formula.