[Feature request] Divide author first/last name automatically

tgna
Hi folks. I think I spend 50% of my time in Zotero copying and pasting authors' names in the First Name and Last Name fields. Is there a way to just paste it and have Zotero take the first word as First Name and the other as Last Names? Thanks all.
  • rutyggi
    Some authors have more than one word as first name and more than one word as last name.
  • tgna
    I undrerstand but I would rather fix that manually as it's the minority of cases. The first word would be first name, the rest of the words would be last name so the only mistake woul be if more than one word was a first name.
  • bwiernik
    Separate the names by a Tab character rather than just a space when copy-pasting.

    What is the situation where you are frequently hand-entering information rather than importing from the web, though?

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