MS Access code to remove alphabet accents

You can use the replace function like this:

UPDATE YourTable
SET YourField = Replace(YourField, "Á","A")

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You can use similar commands or even a nested replace command to remove different accents from your field.

Is there a way I can do all alphabets?  I know there are those like ñ,é, and í etc.  Do I have to do them one by one?

Just one thing that might require more explanation, if you want to use that function in a query, you would add it to a standard module and write your UPDATE query like this:

UPDATE YourTable
SET YourField =  ConvertAccent(YourField)

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I went down this road not too long ago and one of the things your going to find out quickly is that it is not as simple as it sounds.

The characters represented depend on the code page that's been used with the database, so basically you need a translation table for every possible code page.

Also, depending on the  application that generated the character, it may be a uni-code character (two bytes wide) embedded in the string.

In my case, I was trying to scrub name and address info entered on web orders before importing to a back end system.   The backend system used EDI to send orders to a warehouse for shipment, and EDI doesn't like anything outside of the normal ASCII characters.

 Long story short; I gave up on it.   There was no way that I could determine if a unicode character was cut and pasted into the field, and if I translated it based on my character mapping, it actually changed the meaning of it ( 'A' became 'B' for example).

 I felt like I was missing something in identifying a uni-code character vs noraml single byte ones since it displayed correctly, but I never could figure out how it was being identified.

Jim.