Deleting diacritics from records

["Amy Wood" <wood at crl dot edu>]

How can I output bibliographic information from the OPAC to a Microsoft
product with the diacritics either appearing as the proper diacritic or
stripped out of the text.  When we Output fields from records using a
management list and FTS, and open the resulting file in either Microsoft
Word, Excel, or Access all of the diacritics appear as numbers within
curly brackets {1;23}.  We would like to create lists of our records for
various reasons and can't generate a usable list.  I have tried "find
and replace" programs, but I never seem to get a clean file.  If the
file is very large, it takes forever to process.

Thanks,

amy