Quote Function for Dummies

[_charity]

Okay, guys I am willing to learn. I know how to quote from one post. But since I don't stay tuned in to the board every minute of the day, when I get back there are 7 posts addressed to me in a thread, and I want to give respect to a poster who specifically addresses me. But I don't want to post 7 times and inflate my posting number.

So how to I start a post with a quote, then get to a quote from another post and add it in, go to a third,etc?

I am willing to be instructed. But please put it in non-techy langauge.

Thanks.

[_barrelomonkeys]

Oh! I need to learn this too. And I have almost 3000 posts under my belt.

Slllooow learner here. :)

I suppose you could just copy and paste into a word document? I'm way too lazy for that. There must be an easier way.

[_Ray A]

Okay, guys I am willing to learn. I know how to quote from one post. But since I don't stay tuned in to the board every minute of the day, when I get back there are 7 posts addressed to me in a thread, and I want to give respect to a poster who specifically addresses me. But I don't want to post 7 times and inflate my posting number.

So how to I start a post with a quote, then get to a quote from another post and add it in, go to a third,etc?

I am willing to be instructed. But please put it in non-techy langauge.

Thanks.

I thought Dr. Shades would have answered this by now. To start, find the post you want to quote, then go to the top right corner where it says "quote" in red letters. Let us know how you go with that, for starters.

[_charity]

Okay, guys I am willing to learn. I know how to quote from one post. But since I don't stay tuned in to the board every minute of the day, when I get back there are 7 posts addressed to me in a thread, and I want to give respect to a poster who specifically addresses me. But I don't want to post 7 times and inflate my posting number.

So how to I start a post with a quote, then get to a quote from another post and add it in, go to a third,etc?

I am willing to be instructed. But please put it in non-techy langauge.

Thanks.

I thought Dr. Shades would have answered this by now. To start, find the post you want to quote, then go to the top right corner where it says "quote" in red letters. Let us know how you go with that, for starters.

I got that part. It is when I want to include quotes from different posts that I am lost.

[_Dr. Shades]

Those are good questions, Charity. Thanks for asking them.

Just do what I always do:

If you're using any version of Microsoft Windows, open your "Notepad" program (usually by clicking on Start-->
Programs-->Accessories-->Notepad).

Then, copy-&-paste every post to which you want to respond into Notepad, one-by-one.

Then just formulate your entire response right there in Notepad. When you wish to enclose someone's words into a "quote box," put the following characters in front of their material, WITHOUT THE SPACES:

[ quote ]

Then put the following characters at the end of their material, WITHOUT THE SPACES:

[ /quote ]

EXAMPLE: Say you see the following paragraph by me that you want to respond to:

"I feel as though membership in the LDS Church can be time-consuming."

You would copy and paste it into Notepad, then type the following at the front and back (without the spaces, of course):

[ quote ]I feel as though membership in the LDS Church can be time-consuming.[ /quote ]

It would turn out like this:

I feel as though membership in the LDS Church can be time-consuming.

Of course, if you really wanna look cool--or if you want to differentiate between many varied people's material--type the person's name between quotation marks after an "equal" sign within the "quote" tag. Specifically, if you want to attribute the above quote to me, you'd type:

[ quote="Dr. Shades" ]I feel as though membership in the LDS Church can be time-consuming.[ /quote ]

This would give the following result:

I feel as though membership in the LDS Church can be time-consuming.

Once you're done, copy-&-paste the entire thing from Notepad into a reply here on the board.

Presto!

[_barrelomonkeys]

Oh, I'm entirely too lazy to do it in a document.

Good thing no one ever replies to me more than once in a thread. If that. :)

[_skippy the dead]

Okay, guys I am willing to learn. I know how to quote from one post. But since I don't stay tuned in to the board every minute of the day, when I get back there are 7 posts addressed to me in a thread, and I want to give respect to a poster who specifically addresses me. But I don't want to post 7 times and inflate my posting number.

So how to I start a post with a quote, then get to a quote from another post and add it in, go to a third,etc?

I am willing to be instructed. But please put it in non-techy langauge.

Thanks.

You can start by doing what you've been doing so far - with the cut and paste. Once you've pasted the text you want to respond to in the reply composition window, then you can highlight that text, hit the Quote button, add the ="Poster Name" to the first quote tag, and then start your response after the close /quote tag.

If you want to intersperse comments within a quote block, you can add a close quote tag ([ /quote ], without the spaces) to the end of the section you want to comment on, then add an open quote tag ([ quote ], without the spaces) to the start of the next section to create the new quote box.

So it could look like this in your composition window (minus the spaces on the quote tags, of course):

[ quote="charity" ]
Okay, guys I am willing to learn.
[ /quote ]

I'll try to explain.

[ quote="charity" ]
I know how to quote from one post. But since I don't stay tuned in to the board every minute of the day, when I get back there are 7 posts addressed to me in a thread, and I want to give respect to a poster who specifically addresses me. But I don't want to post 7 times and inflate my posting number.

So how to I start a post with a quote, then get to a quote from another post and add it in, go to a third,etc?
[ /quote ]

Start with the cut and paste, etc. . .

[ quote="charity" ]
I am willing to be instructed. But please put it in non-techy langauge.
[ /quote ]

Hopefully it's not that techy, and hopefully the examples help.

Sometimes I'm not that good at explaining, so if there's anything I'm not clear on, let me know and I'll try to do a better job.

[_CaliforniaKid]

Hit the reply button. Then you need to know a couple hotkeys:

Ctrl-C is "copy"
Ctrl-V is "paste"

Scroll down below your empty reply box, to where the thread is displayed. Select the text you want to reply to, "copy" it using ctrl-C, click inside the empty reply box and "paste" ctrl-V. Now select the text you pasted and hit the "quote" button. Repeat as necessary.

[_skippy the dead]

Oh, I'm entirely too lazy to do it in a document.

Good thing no one ever replies to me more than once in a thread. If that. :)

Oh lord, I would never bother with a separate document either. I just do everything in the composition window.

The little buttons on the top really help out us lazy folk.

[_Jersey Girl]

I know! I know!

Okay, I do it the slow and remedial way. You say you can catch the first quote but want to dig around and add more quotes...or maybe you want to break up the quote into answerable pieces.

So, I gather up the quote such as the comments I just wrote using the quote feature...

First I click on the Quote button and I get this:

[mquote] (But I'm going to have to add another letter just so it won't quote me yet and so that you can see it so, I've added an "m" where it shouldn't be. See it?

So then, I copy and paste in my comments like this:

[mquote]Okay, I do it the slow and remedial way. You say you can catch the first quote but want to dig around and add more quotes...or maybe you want to break up the quote into answerable pieces.

And now I click the Quote button one more time to get this:


[mquote]Okay, I do it the slow and remedial way. You say you can catch the first quote but want to dig around and add more quotes...or maybe you want to break up the quote into answerable pieces.[/mquote] (with the added "m")

That gets you the original quote.

When you want to add more quotes....just go to the post that you want, copy and paste it...and then use the quote buttons again. (the button won't give you the "m" I inserted of course)

When you want to break up a whole post into answerable quotes...you do it this way...without the "m" I'm having to insert so it shows you. Like this:

[mquote]I know! I know! [/mquote]

[mquote]Okay, I do it the slow and remedial way. You say you can catch the first quote but want to dig around and add more quotes...or maybe you want to break up the quote into answerable pieces.[/mquote]

Now when you do it without the "m's...it'll look like this:

I know! I know!

Okay, I do it the slow and remedial way. You say you can catch the first quote but want to dig around and add more quotes...or maybe you want to break up the quote into answerable pieces.

In other words, charity....you manually insert the quote thingy's just like the quote feature does. You type the same things.