Jeannie, as I said in my post paw3pals laid it all out for you in their post and I mentioned it as well - there is a button on the Manage Authors dialog which will do them all at once for you, once you verify that the current way the author sort field is populated as the values you now want to display for the author just hit the magic "copy all author sort values to author" button...
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Originally Posted by paw3pals
Now there are 2 or 3 ways to change all the authors in Calibre.
1. On the left side of the Calibre screen, in the list should be Authors and a number in brackets - right click it and select Manage Authors .Scan the list of author's names and see if there is a column that has them listed as Last Name, First Name (LN,FN) already
.If the Author Sort column does, click the copy all author sort values to author button
.Check through the authors to be sure you are happy. You can still press Cancel to abandon the changes. Once you press OK, there is no undo. .If 1 column has a name listed wrong and the other is correct, right click the correct name and select copy to (the other column) .Press OK, at which point calibre will change the authors in all your books. This can take a while.
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As for automatically putting a name into LN, FN format for new books, no calibre does not have that feature. However the Quality Check plugin has a feature to do this which you can assign to a keyboard shortcut. So if you import the author and it is already LN, FN due to your regular expression or book metadata then all is fine and you have nothing to do. If calibre sees the author as FN LN then you need to flip it, which the QC plugin has a feature to do to save you the typing and without having to enter the Edit Metadata dialog.