Novice poster needs help please

Born Tired · Post by **Born Tired** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:10 pm

There have been times I'd like to comment on or ask a question about someone's post, but I must be doing something wrong when trying to put a quote into the box. I can get their post up to comment about, but when I click "preview" there is no box that says "So and so wrote".
I need for one of you highly intelligent hose heads to give me a hand with this please.
Thanks bunches,
Esther

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:10 pm

Esther,

Are you using the box at the top right that says "Quote" because that not only puts in the quote, but the user's name. Don't feel so bad. Up until just recently, I used to highlight the quote and use the old copy/paste in a reply box. It never said the poster's name, but I would fill it in with "So And So Writes:" and then paste the quote below it.

Let me know if this helps answer your question.

Jere · Post by **Jere** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:16 pm

Sleepless on LI wrote: Are you using the box at the top right that says "Quote" because that not only puts in the quote, but the user's name. Don't feel so bad. Up until just recently, I used to highlight the quote and use the old copy/paste in a reply box. It never said the poster's name, but I would fill it in with "So And So Writes:" and then paste the quote below it.

Let me know if this helps answer your question.

Can I quote you on that?

Jere · Post by **Jere** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:17 pm

Actually - Esther - I was trying to figure out exactly the same thing.

Thanks for the IT help, Lori!

Jerry

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:32 pm

Jere wrote:Actually - Esther - I was trying to figure out exactly the same thing.

Thanks for the IT help, Lori!

Jerry

It obviously worked for you, Jere. You're welcome. Thanks to Bill/WAFlowers for telling me how to do it after four months...

Born Tired · Post by **Born Tired** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:29 pm

OK I'll try it and see.

Sleepless on LI wrote:Esther,

Are you using the box at the top right that says "Quote" because that not only puts in the quote, but the user's name. Don't feel so bad. Up until just recently, I used to highlight the quote and use the old copy/paste in a reply box. It never said the poster's name, but I would fill it in with "So And So Writes:" and then paste the quote below it.

Let me know if this helps answer your question.

Now how did that happen? I had been using the "quote" button before, but when I would preview it, it wouldn't be in the box. O well, I'm just glad it works now. Guess I'm just a slow learner.
Thanks, Lori.
Esther

You know, I might have been deleting one of the "quote" in brackets that come at the beginning and end of the message I wanted to reply to when I would delete some of the text. Maybe that was confusing the system. Maybe I'm just confusing everybody now.

Born Tired · Post by **Born Tired** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:32 pm

Jere wrote:Actually - Esther - I was trying to figure out exactly the same thing.

Jerry

Jerry, aren't you glad everybody is so willing to help out? This is a great group to belong to.
Esther

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 8:50 pm

Esther,

Whenever you want to start a quote and end a quote, you have to have the

at the beginning and the

at the end. If you notice, though, when the name is inserted in the gray area, it reads,

WHATEVER NAME wrote: at the beginning of it so it inserts that person who made the quote's name.

If you know what to look for when you do it, you will be able to tell if you deleted a part of it. You can also take away a certain part of the whole post when quoting as long as you leave the front part,
WHATEVER NAME wrote:, and the end has the

.

Hope that helps.

lindas88 · Post by **lindas88** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:45 pm

Sleepless on LI wrote:
Are you using the box at the top right that says "Quote" because that not only puts in the quote, but the user's name. Don't feel so bad. Up until just recently, I used to highlight the quote and use the old copy/paste in a reply box. It never said the poster's name, but I would fill it in with "So And So Writes:" and then paste the quote below it.

Let me know if this helps answer your question.

I also didn't know how to do that...I was doing it the exact way Lori was...so thanks...

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:45 am

Linda,

you're welcome!

WAFlowers · Post by **WAFlowers** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:23 am

Truth be told I was tired of trying to figure out who Lori was quoting, so I finally decided to let her in on the secret of using the auto-quote feature.

It looks like a bunch of people have figured it out now. Congratulations!

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:33 am

WAFlowers wrote:Truth be told I was tired of trying to figure out who Lori was quoting, so I finally decided to let her in on the secret of using the auto-quote feature.

It looks like a bunch of people have figured it out now. Congratulations!

Bill,
Funny you say that because, for the longest time, I would write above the quote box, "WAFlowers writes:" I finally gave up and just started putting the highlighted text in the quote box...UNTIL you told me how to get the name in there (phew). Thank you!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:51 pm

Lori, you also have to have a /quote in brackets at the end of the quote...to mark the end of the quote. I can't actually show you the /quote in the [ ] brackets because the system will interpret it's function and not display it.....I hope I made sense.

Amy

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:27 pm

Anonymous wrote:Lori, you also have to have a /quote in brackets at the end of the quote...to mark the end of the quote. I can't actually show you the /quote in the [ ] brackets because the system will interpret it's function and not display it.....I hope I made sense.

Amy

You're right, Amy. I thought I wrote that in this explanation. I did, though, earlier when I explained it to someone else under a different thread about Apnea Duration Increased. I noticed that my typing it out caused it to come out in a quote, now that I looked back to if I really hadn't included it. I thought I had. But you're right. What I wrote, and the end being with the bracket, forward slash, the word quote and then a closing bracket. Good catch. Thank you.

joey · Post by **joey** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:57 pm

I think it works like this if you use quote.

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