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Old 11-15-2011, 04:40 PM   #3
paprion
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Thanks for the prompt answer

I think this works for me perfectly:
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
You can't sort the author column by anything other than the contents of author_sort. You could create a custom column containing the author (FN LN) and sort by that custom column, but then you'd have two author columns. You could hide one.
Just to correct a small mistake, in case another newbie like me stumbles upon this post, instead of /1 one should use \1 which refers to the content the parentheses
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
Highlight all, bulk metadata edit all, use Search and Replace to find (.*) in author and set the destination to author_sort and replace with /1. You'll want to set the Tweak to Copy so it copies author to author_sort without change for new ebooks.
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