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Old 07-27-2013, 10:50 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
we have a button that generates a correct author sort from the author field.

could we have one that works in reverse please, or is that problematic. I have often times imported a book where the author sort field is correct but the author field is populated wrongly ( typically it is the same as the sort field). A button would be more convenient than having to manually edit.
Cyb

You can use Bulk Mode Search and Replace to select in author_sort: (.+) and replace in the authors: \1

The Quality check PI also has some author manipulation tools
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