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AUTHOR

Syntax:

AUTHOR [ field-argument ] [ switch ]

Description: Retrieves, and optionally sets, the document author's name, as recorded in the Creator element of the Core File Properties part or, if field-argument is present, the name specified by text in field-argument. Specifying a field-argument shall change Creator to text.

Field Value: The document author's name.

Switches: One of the following general-formatting-switches: \* Caps, \* FirstCap, \* Lower, or \* Upper.

[Example: Consider the case in which the Creator element is as follows:

   <Creator>William Jones</Creator>

and the following field is updated:

AUTHOR

The result is:

William Jones

Updating the following field:

AUTHOR "Tony Caruso"

causes the Creator element to take on the specified value. end example]