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Punctuation in Author name
I hope someone can help a newbie. I have a number of authors who have punctuation in the author name eg
J.F. Smith or J. F. Smith and then of course the same author with JF Smith or J F Smith Is there a simple way to search through a list of authors and convert all so there is no punctuation, and a space between each initial so all appear as J F Smith I tried searching the forum but did not find anything - probably searching for the wrong thing. Thanks |
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The plugin Find Duplicates has a tool "Find metada variation" that does exactly what you are looking for.
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Also see the Quality Check plugin. It has tools to find and fix the variants you describe.
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Thanks for both suggestions. Both work well.
Help is much appreciated. |
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yeah, I run the quality check plugin across all my metadata
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