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[Peter Katin]

Can someone tell me how to quote from a message?

Peter

[Uncle Monty]

Can someone tell me how to quote from a message?

Peter

Peter, I think you just hit the "Reply with Quote" to the lower right of the message, and type your contribution beneath the quote in the resulting new box.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If you only want to quote part of the message, it is easy to delete the bits you don't want, but take care not to delete the square brackets around the "QUOTE" and "/QUOTE"

[Philidor]

Another way is to hit the quote tag:



Anything within the tag appears as an inset quote,

like this

but is not linked to any member or post.

[Peter Katin]

I think you just hit the "Reply with Quote" to the lower right of the message

Now, is that right???

[french frank]

Now, is that right???

Peter, if you click on the words 'Reply With Quote' (rather than the "+ symbol to the right of it, you will get the name of the poster you're replying to, plus the valuable little blue square which allows people to click straight back on that original post - very useful if it's buried some way back in the thread. And then - as you did - edit out the bits of the quote that are superfluous.

[Peter Katin]

Peter, if you click on the words 'Reply With Quote' (rather than the "+ symbol to the right of it, you will get the name of the poster you're replying to, plus the valuable little blue square which allows people to click straight back on that original post - very useful if it's buried some way back in the thread. And then - as you did - edit out the bits of the quote that are superfluous.

[QUOTE=if you click on the words 'Reply With Quote' [/QUOTE]

Now have I got it right?!!

[french frank]

Now have I got it right?!!

Looks like it!

[doversoul1]

While we are at it, is there any way I can copy and paste the poster’s name into my reply (to avoid misspelling)? When I tried, it shows in a page-wide box.

Also, BBC MBs did not approve of my keyboard setting and would all sorts of embarrassing things to my posts if I used anything other than plain letters, most of which I could not see on my own screen. I am now using apostrophes. Does it display correctly or do my posts still have mini boxes and hieroglyphs? And how about:

Concerto Köln
Renée Fleming

[mangerton]

While we are at it, is there any way I can copy and paste the poster’s name into my reply (to avoid misspelling)? When I tried, it shows in a page-wide box.

Also, BBC MBs did not approve of my keyboard setting and would all sorts of embarrassing things to my posts if I used anything other than plain letters, most of which I could not see on my own screen. I am now using apostrophes. Does it display correctly or do my posts still have mini boxes and hieroglyphs? And how about:

Concerto Köln
Renée Fleming

doversoul, I can see an apostrophe, umlaut and acute accent in my browser - and they're all in the right places. ü é

[doversoul1]

mangerton
Thanks!!

And thank you french frank. This will make my life a lot easier. A great improvement.