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Old 04-27-2020, 05:24 PM   #1
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Hello,

Is there a way to copy and paste only selected metadata?
In my case, authors and tags only (and maybe series in some cases).
Ideally, if I could copy these metadata and paste them on the following book in the list, that would be exactly what I need.
Any idea?

Thanks for your help,
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Old 04-27-2020, 05:35 PM   #2
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This exists, it is just a bit obscure (took me a bit to locate )
Right click on the Source record: Edit Metadata: Copy Metadata
On the Target record: Same place but Paste Metadata
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Hello,

Is there a way to copy and paste only selected metadata?
In my case, authors and tags only (and maybe series in some cases).
Ideally, if I could copy these metadata and paste them on the following book in the list, that would be exactly what I need.
Any idea?
If you haven't assigned them to something else, you can set Copy metadata to Ctrl+C and Paste metadata to Ctrl+V in Preferences->Shirtcuts->Edit metadata.

Use Preferences->Tweaks->Exclude fields when copy/pasting metadata to exclude columns from the metadata paste.

If you Paste metadata to multiple selected books, you'll get and Are you sure warning.

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Old 04-28-2020, 06:22 PM   #4
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Hello,

Thak to both of you
That is exactly what I was looking for

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