ok, I give up

[sailortats]

I am not a "computater" person. Too old I guess, I have tried several different methods but cannot figure out how to quote a prior message or part of a message in my reply. I notice most quotes come with the gray background. How in h**l do you do it? No computereese please.

[McMurdo]

I am not a "computater" person. Too old I guess, I have tried several different methods but cannot figure out how to quote a prior message or part of a message in my reply. I notice most quotes come with the gray background. How in h**l do you do it? No computereese please.

Down near the bottom right of each post is a quote button, press it and the quote will appear in a reply box. you can then respond as I have done here.

[piperdbh]

Down near the bottom right of each post is a quote button

it's white

press it

that would make sense

and the quote will appear in a reply box.

ta-da!

you can then respond as I have done here.

or you can chop up somebody else's post.

If you do this: [quote] and then write something and put the same thing but with a / in front of the word "quote", you can chop up someone else's writing.

[AKScott]

it is just quote tags. You need an open tag with an id for the person you are quoting, and an end tag. I will type a thing twice, once qwith asterisks inside the quote tags so they show, and once without the asterisks.

[*quote=God] Nietsche is dead[/*quote]

Nietsche is dead.

[tinksdad]

I'm chronologically experienced as well and probably not totally computer literate; but I'll take a stab at explaining how I do it.

There is a "Quote" button in the lower right of the post that I would like to Quote/paraphrase/etc....

Click that and a new reply window comes up with the original post entered. You can use the quote intact or delete parts of it if you only want to address part of it. You can also add tags to chnage font color or type size or style if you want to emphasize part of the quote; but I'll leave that to someone more savy to explain.

The "Preview Post" button is my friend as well so that I can see if what I typed actually makes sense before I Submit.

[sailortats]

Down near the bottom right of each post is a quote button, press it and the quote will appear in a reply box. you can then respond as I have done here.

This is a test, only a test -do I or do I not get a gray background for my quote?

YES, I doded it Thanks to everyone for helpful replies

[piperdbh]

Ta-Da!!!

[Tobus]

Congrats! Now, there's an unwritten rule of etiquette that goes along with using quotes. If you want to reply to one specific thing that a person said, please don't quote their entire reply!

Once you hit the "quote" button and it takes you to the screen where you can type your reply, feel free to delete the irrelevant text from in between the quote tags so you can pare it down to only the relevant part. Otherwise, you can end up quoting half a page of text (along with photos and whatever else was in there), needlessly. That sort of thing really junks up the forum, making threads difficult to read, and unnecessarily using bandwidth and storage space.

So be a responsible quoter!

Also, if there are multiple posts in a thread that you want to reply to, you can hit the little button that's next to the Quote button. It's just the quotations symbol. This is called the multi-quote feature. By clicking it on each post you want to quote, and then going to the bottom of a page and clicking "Post Reply", it will take you to a reply screen with all those posts quoted.

You can then reply to each one individually, by typing in your text between them. But again, please pare it down to only the relevant portions of their replies that you want to address. Otherwise it's just maddening for others to try to read.

[Santa Wally]

Also, if there are multiple posts in a thread that you want to reply to, you can hit the little button that's next to the Quote button. It's just the quotations symbol. This is called the multi-quote feature. By clicking it on each post you want to quote, and then going to the bottom of a page and clicking "Post Reply", it will take you to a reply screen with all those posts quoted.

Thanks for that information. I wondered how the multiple quotes were made.

I tried to do it that way, using the multi-quote feature, but I must have done something wrong since the whole post showed up. It didn't work for me. The partial quote above was done by using the regular quote button then deleting everything I didn't need to quote. It works OK in this instance since that's all I wanted to quote after the multi-quote it didn't work when I tried it..

There have been times I'd really wanted to do the multi-quote from a single post. What did I do wrong or miss doing when I tried the muliti-quote feature.

[EagleJCS]

Wally,
If you want to bust up a single quoted post as piperdbh did above, then you'll need to add in the [quote] and [/ quote] tags at the beginning and end of each section. (The 'close quote' tag doesn't have a space after the slash.) The first section wiil have the reference back to the original post that you're quoting.