Posting Replys
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Posting Replys
I've noticed that in some replys to stuff that the original message was shown in an outlined box within the reply. I would like to know how that is done. Please.
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Re: Posting Replys
Press the 'Quote' button in the top right of the entry you wish to 'Quote'.Cpt. Farrterlott 3rd wrote:I've noticed that in some replys to stuff that the original message was shown in an outlined box within the reply. I would like to know how that is done. Please.
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Is that how you do it? I've always typed it mandrolically! even putting the =Drew bit in myself as well!
Well I never!
1000+ posts and still a numbskull
Well I never!
1000+ posts and still a numbskull
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DaddyHoggy wrote:Is that how you do it? I've always typed it mandrolically! even putting the =Drew bit in myself as well!
Well I never!
1000+ posts and still a numbskull
Well, yes, that is exactly what I am doing right now.
The alternative is: Mark the text you want to quote in your browser and c&p it in the typing window. Then you only have to mark it again and click the "Quote" button above the window, to let the start- and end-tags appear. The only thing that is left to do mandrolically then is the ="DaddyHoggy" bit.
This latter technique is extremely helpful if you want to quote different posts in the same answer.
It also helps that the whole discussion is shown in the "Topic review" beneath your typing window. So you only need to scroll down, copy, scroll up, paste, select, click "Quote", repeat...
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Glad you typed all that up - I was hoping someone else would explain all that - now I can just quote it.Commander McLane wrote:DaddyHoggy wrote:Is that how you do it? I've always typed it mandrolically! even putting the =Drew bit in myself as well!
Well I never!
1000+ posts and still a numbskull
Well, yes, that is exactly what I am doing right now.
The alternative is: Mark the text you want to quote in your browser and c&p it in the typing window. Then you only have to mark it again and click the "Quote" button above the window, to let the start- and end-tags appear. The only thing that is left to do mandrolically then is the ="DaddyHoggy" bit.
This latter technique is extremely helpful if you want to quote different posts in the same answer.
It also helps that the whole discussion is shown in the "Topic review" beneath your typing window. So you only need to scroll down, copy, scroll up, paste, select, click "Quote", repeat...
Cheers,
Drew.
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Feel free to quote me wherever you see fit.drew wrote:Glad you typed all that up - I was hoping someone else would explain all that - now I can just quote it.Commander McLane wrote:DaddyHoggy wrote:Is that how you do it? I've always typed it mandrolically! even putting the =Drew bit in myself as well!
Well I never!
1000+ posts and still a numbskull
Well, yes, that is exactly what I am doing right now.
The alternative is: Mark the text you want to quote in your browser and c&p it in the typing window. Then you only have to mark it again and click the "Quote" button above the window, to let the start- and end-tags appear. The only thing that is left to do mandrolically then is the ="DaddyHoggy" bit.
This latter technique is extremely helpful if you want to quote different posts in the same answer.
It also helps that the whole discussion is shown in the "Topic review" beneath your typing window. So you only need to scroll down, copy, scroll up, paste, select, click "Quote", repeat...
Cheers,
Drew.
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Will do.Commander McLane wrote:Feel free to quote me wherever you see fit.drew wrote:Glad you typed all that up - I was hoping someone else would explain all that - now I can just quote it.Commander McLane wrote:
Well, yes, that is exactly what I am doing right now.
The alternative is: Mark the text you want to quote in your browser and c&p it in the typing window. Then you only have to mark it again and click the "Quote" button above the window, to let the start- and end-tags appear. The only thing that is left to do mandrolically then is the ="DaddyHoggy" bit.
This latter technique is extremely helpful if you want to quote different posts in the same answer.
It also helps that the whole discussion is shown in the "Topic review" beneath your typing window. So you only need to scroll down, copy, scroll up, paste, select, click "Quote", repeat...
Cheers,
Drew.
Cheers,
Drew.
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Let me qualify my previous statement - I've always typed [ quote] and then C&p the text I was interested in and then typed [ /quote] I never realised that I could quote an entire message so easily - that's what surprised me. Semi-numbskull.
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Just for the hell of it.drew wrote:Will do.Commander McLane wrote:Feel free to quote me wherever you see fit.drew wrote:Glad you typed all that up - I was hoping someone else would explain all that - now I can just quote it.
Cheers,
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Cheers,
Drew.
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Children! Stop it! Right now!
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Okay. Stopping.DaddyHoggy wrote:Children! Stop it! Right now!
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It wasn't me! (That's what children up to the age of <insert any high number here> say anywhere in the world.)drew wrote:He started it! (Well, actually he didn't, but it's what my kids say...)Captain Hesperus wrote:Okay. Stopping.DaddyHoggy wrote:Children! Stop it! Right now!
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Cheers,
Drew.
I have a mental age of about 9 does that count?Commander McLane wrote:It wasn't me! (That's what children up to the age of <insert any high number here> say anywhere in the world.)drew wrote:He started it! (Well, actually he didn't, but it's what my kids say...)Captain Hesperus wrote:Okay. Stopping.
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OK so I'm a PC user - "you know whats scary? Out of billions of sperm I was the fastest"
OK so I'm a PC user - "you know whats scary? Out of billions of sperm I was the fastest"
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Especially that (and the faculty of the cosine of the square of the difference to your biological age).TGHC wrote:I have a mental age of about 9 does that count?Commander McLane wrote:It wasn't me! (That's what children up to the age of <insert any high number here> say anywhere in the world.)drew wrote:He started it! (Well, actually he didn't, but it's what my kids say...)
Cheers,
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