Megabit Macros: “Name-Splitting” macros for copying names from bibliographies and splitting them up into individual records in indexing software available for SKY or Cindex: copies the string of names and produces individual records for each name with last name first
Pattern Description	Sample Pattern (“and” can be either “and” or “&”)
FN Last, no periods in initials	JE Smith, JD Hamilton, MD Grant,and EJ Lesson BH Obama and WJ Clinton
F. N. Last, initials with periods & spaces	J. M. Lang, J. P. Hamilton, R. Buell,and J. E. Lalley J. R. Smith and T. Q. Jones
F.N. Last, initials with periods, no spaces	J.M. Long, J.P. Homily, M.G. Daze, and J. E. Lowth J.W. O’Brien and J.A. Lamb
Last FN, no periods/no spaces between initials, date in parentheses	Smith AQ, Wait GE, Adams JQ, & Shoe FS (1999) Childs XQ and Peron SL (1997)
Last FN, no periods/no spaces between initials	Langley BT, Franklin BF, Bradford W, & Porter SP Johnson PT and Smithson AB
Last, F.N., with periods but no spaces between initials	Smith, A.Q., Washington, G.E., & Carpenter, G.T. McGillicuddy, C.T., and O’Neill, R.R.
Last, F. N., with periods & spaces between initials	McLaughlin, A. B., Wright, C. D., & McCoy, G. H. Plantain, H. T., Jr., and Bananas, I. G. (Eds.)
Last, F. N., with periods & spaces between initials, date in parentheses	Wright, J. C., Browne, G. A., and Haskins, L. A. (2011) Cohen, S. T., and Lattson, H. A. (2002)
There’s also a new macro that turns a full name in normal order into a name with periods and initials. For example, this would turn “Norman Victor Hansen” into “Hansen, N. V.”