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Originally Posted by monkbythesea
. Fetching metadata online fills out "Author" box with author's 1st name 1st/last name last. Be nice if the "Author_Sort" box automatically reverse this. It would be one less field you have to
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Normal behaviour IS to reverse the Author fields unless set explicitly. However it is not always set correctly in the existing metadata.
One trick is to select multiple books and then click on Edit Metadata to bring up the bulk metadata edit dialog. If you simply click the 'Set Author Sort Automatically' checkbox and nothing else followed by OK then Calibre will apply the author->author-sort transform to all the selected books.