first name surname swop

[blackcat]

anyone know how to have one field for say author and then swop the text round
as in enter john smith and save and display as smith, john

 

[Rick B]

You would save the first and last name in two separate fields if you need to
be able to do this easily.

 

[Ken Snell [MVP]]

Yes, if you can always use a space to delineate between the first and last
names... which doesn't work for authors with three or four names.

You'll be better to have separate fields for the first, middle, and last
name, and then it'll be easy for you to concatenate the values in any way
you wish.