>>Naomi I cannot understand the code perhaps I am confusing you - I have given the name town to of one of the fields which has accents
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>>Does this make any difference to your code?
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>No difference to that sample code. Read it till you understand what it's doing. Only after you understand apply the changes you need.
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>Although I like Michel's code more, it's one simple update command that does the job.

The conversion of an xslx file to a csv file has resulted in invalid characters hence all the problems

Thanks for all your help