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Default How to create a formula to remove multiple . in a numbers?

Cheri.l wrote:
Ex: 11.2101.1030.0000.0000.1982 how can I remove these dots in multiple
numbers on a spreadsheet?


You can remove the "dots" with SUBSTITUTE:

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,".","")

The result is still text that looks like a number, but due to the length of the
string, it isn't going to be much good as a number, anyway.