Remove Quoations from Names in ACCESS 2013

[Huizar]

My Access table has a column with employee names. Some names have quotation marks and some don't. How can I remove the quotation marks that surround the names on my table? Keep in my mind it's my main table I run to create my queries.


Thanks

 

[63falcondude]

If you go to the table view, you should be able to do a Find & Replace. Replace " with nothing.

 

[Huizar]

I found that option, but the problem is if I do a replace ALL it says "You can't replace the current value of the field with the replacement text. If I do a one by one replacement it works, but that would take too long.

 

[63falcondude]

Have you tried the following?

Find: """"
Replace: ""

 

[Huizar]

That did not work for me.

 

[Joe4]

Are they single or double quotes?

 

[Huizar]

example: "Mr. Bob Howard"

 

[Joe4]

You can use an Update Query to do that.

You can use the Query Builder to build it. The SQL code for it would look something like:

UPDATE [I]TableName[/I]
SET [I]EmployeeNameField[/I] = Replace([I]EmployeeNameField[/I],"""","")
WHERE [I]EmployeeNameField[/I]<>"";

 

[Huizar]

Hey Joe,

Does that mean that I will always need that query in the query in the ALL OBjects Access column? sorry I'm very green when it comes to access.

 

[Joe4]

If you intend/need to run it more than once, you will want to save it. Then it will show up under the Query Objects.
If it is always being run on the same table, then all you need to do is double-click that saved query and it will run.