Can I move Metadata captions?

I spent the weekend captioning images and it's been a while since I did it.
However, When I was meant to add the persons name in the photo to the "caption" section in the default metadata section.
I actually added the persons name into the IPTC Extension "Persons show in image" Section.
There are lots of different people in lots of different photos...is there a way to move the information from one field to another for all images without having togo in an copy and paste each one?
D.

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