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Old 07-23-2013, 04:26 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by rolgiati View Post
Search books on author:"," and Select all.
Then go to Edit Metadata in Bulk, Search and Replace, choose the Search Mode: Regular Expression, the Search Field: Author, then input Search For: for (.*),(.*) and Replace With: \2 \1

It will still need some cleaning-up for those few
Authors who had more than one comma in the field...


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