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What format should I use to display 1.1.01 as 1.1.1 in a cell?
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It is text, formats work on numbers.

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=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"0","")
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I don't think you can change the appearance with formatting because 1.1.01
is text not a number (or a date -- which is really a number anyway)
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This is probably safer:

=SUBSTITUTE(A1,".0",".")

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