Quote/Multi-Quoting Posts:

[Deleted member 66627]

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<DD>Surprisingly, a lot of users have been here for years and have yet to master or were never completely aware of quoting or multiple quoting posts.

Here I will show you how to do that and where to find the correct buttons for each task.

Along with that, I will show you how to edit down long quotes to only include the content you desire to speak to.
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Let's call up a thread. Here's the layout.



*I turned the signatures off to better show the whole thread/post.


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Bottom right of the featured post, you will see Two Buttons.​

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We are just going to Quote her post first.
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Click on this button:​

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This is what will happen when you do that:​

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Now just enter your reply below and you'll have something that will look like this:​

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Easy, right?

Now let's try multiple quoting.

This is the button that is right next to the Quote Button.

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Here:​

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We are going to be Multi-Quoting two posts:​

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Notice how two of the three Multi-Quote Buttons are Red?

That's good. That's what we want. Now scroll down and click Post Reply.



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Here's what you'll have:​

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<TD><center><b>Here's what your post will look like:</center></b></TD>
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If you can Multiple Quote posts, then editing things out will be easy.​

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<LI type="disc">Quote the post.
<LI type="disc">[Persons name/ID Number] Topic Topic Topic Topic. [/QUOTE]
<LI type="disc">Leave The Code Alone!!
<LI type="disc">Delete anything not pertaining to what you would like to discuss, where the words Topic are. In a quoted post on forum, that will be where the users post is.
<LI type="disc">Reply as needed and hit send.
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[kayaker273]

Thanks Jo! 🙂

 

[AngelOfDarkness]

Jo I love you. Multi-posting is like the hugest pet peeve of mine ever.

 

[unit5610]

Thanks Jo...I never knew how to do this either!!
This is excellent.

 

[Sweed]

Thanks for the explaination! 🙂 I didn't knew how to multi-quote before I read this.