Removal of Special Characters

Can Postal Soft Business Edition remove special characters from a data file? I have run a few tests and in some instances special characters were not removed.

DLeath,
Postalsoft Business Edition does not remove special characters from a file. This is something you would need to bring into another program to do.
Please let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks,
Melissa

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> Gary White wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:15:04 +0100, "(_seb_)"
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