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i wish to change a cell that contains "27809980" to "27.809.980" it is a text
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You can use a formula in another cell:

=CONCATENATE(LEFT(A1,2),".",MID(A1,3,3),".",RIGHT( A2,3))

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i wish to change a cell that contains "27809980" to "27.809.980" it is a text
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=LEFT(A1,2)&"."&MID(A1,3,3)&"."&RIGHT(A1,3)

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