>>Can you help further
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>>My dbf file consists of about 1000 records and 20 fields of which 10 could have accents - I dont know what the accents are I just need to remove all accents from all of the 10 fields for all of the 1000 records -
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>What I mentioned originally might be able to do it. That would assume you handle them one by one, meaning you know you would have capital A accented into which you would like to convert to capital A without accent:
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>UPDATE MyTable SET MyField=CHRTRAN(MyField,"ÀÁÂÃÄÅÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöùúûüýÿ","AAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaceeeeiiiidnooooouuuuyy")
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You can list all columns you need to change in one update command and update all of them in one go.