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Old 01-08-2014, 03:07 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
We are talking at cross purposes. You're talking about editing the author's name; I'm talking about editing its sort order.

Eg, if you have the famous Dutch author "Dick van Writer", you would, to conform to Dutch sorting rules, want to list him as "van Writer, Dick", but have his name sorted under "Writer", not "van". You can achieve this by setting the author's name as "van Writer, Dick" and the author sort as "Writer, Dick van", on the metadata screen.
BetterRed is also talking about editing the sort order -- the difference is, editing it in Manage Authors makes it a librarywide change.
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