CrystalLight
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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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We are just going to Quote her post first.
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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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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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<TD><center><b>Here's what your post will look like:</center></b></TD>
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<MENU>
<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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<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.
</DL>
Let's call up a thread. Here's the layout.
*I turned the signatures off to better show the whole thread/post.
<TABLE BORDER="2" BORDERCOLOR="#336699" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="80%">
<TR>
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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.
<TABLE BORDER="2" BORDERCOLOR="#336699" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="65%">
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Here's what you'll have:
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<TABLE BORDER="2" BORDERCOLOR="#336699" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="100%">
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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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<MENU>
<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.
</MENU></TD>
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