Reply To: Metadata, Multiple authors, One document.

If you use an InCopy/InDesign workflow, you can edit each story's metadata (including Author) in InCopy via File > File Info. Then, InDesign can show that in the Links panel … you can see there's an entry for Author there. You could even put Author into the Column section so you could sort by Author name. Like linked images, you can't edit the story's metadata from within InDesign, you have to do it in the external app.

It doesn't work with linked Word files, I guess because Word doesn't use the XMP standard. But InCopy can open/convert Word files, so there's an avenue.

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