Hi Nadya,

Thanks for posting a correction to Herman's code ... laughing out loud ... I had 3 UT sessions in my browser and just saw this response ... hope that explains the crazy order in which I'm replying to past posts!

Thanks again for your help on this thread,

Malcolm

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>Last suggestion by Herman should work. I suggested the same function as he did in his first reply, so it should be modified to
>chrtran(lower(lcOriginalString),chrtran(lower(lcOriginalString),'qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm',""),"")