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Old 03-30-2023, 06:13 AM   #3
chaley
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Originally Posted by Aat View Post
Hi,

I know that you can copy the sort author to the author.
Is there also a possibility to swap back?

Lastname, Firsname to Firstname Lastname

Kr,

Aat
One at a time in the Edit Metadata (single) dialog:
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In the Manage authors dialog (in Tag browser, right click on Authors), one at a time or all authors. Note that you can use Virtual libraries to operate on a subset of authors.
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As @mbovenka said, in the Quality Check plugin. This method operates on a selection of books. It doesn't copy the author sort to the author. Instead it guesses where the comma should go. For example, I want the author sort of the name "Fred van der Linden" to be "van der Linden, Fred". Quality check produces "Linden, Fred van der".

Edit: if you want to remove the comma from authors in bulk then Quality Check is probably the best way.

Last edited by chaley; 03-30-2023 at 06:28 AM.
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