ok, I give up

**Tobus** · 9th February 12, 07:03 AM

Right, Wally. The multi-quote feature will only give you a reply page with entire quotations from each post that you chose. It's useful for responding to multiple people in one reply (instead of replying to these people with separate posts).

It is not intended to do multiple quotes from one single person. As John said above, if you want to do multiple quotes from a single person's reply, you have to quote their entire reply, and then bust it up manually in your reply, by inserting the quote tags as appropriate.

Or, there's another way to do it...

You can go to the reply screen without quoting anybody. To insert selected quotes from previous posts, just scroll down until you find the post you're looking for (note that it will only show you the previous 10 replies from that screen). Take your mouse and highlight the text you want to reply to. Then hit CTRL-C on your keyboard. This will copy the text. Scroll back up to your reply box and click to put your cursor back in there. Then hit CTRL-V. This pastes the text into the box.

However, it will only be bare text. To turn it into a quote, you must either manually add the quote tags before and after it, or highlight the text which you just inserted and hit the button on the toolbar that adds the quote tags for you.

This button is only available on the advanced reply screen (not the quick-reply box). It looks like a little cartoon text cloud with tiny words in it. Hover your mouse over these buttons at the top of the reply box until you find the one that says "Wrap [QUOTE] tags around selected text". When you hit this button, having highlighted the text in your reply box, it will automatically add the tags for you.

So you can use this button to save yourself from having to type in the tags all the time. Just go select the text you want from a previous post, copy and paste it into your reply, highlight that text, and hit the button I described, and you'll have a quote. Do this as many times as you wish in your reply.

**Riverkilt** · 9th February 12, 07:04 AM

And ummm....where do these quote tag thingies come from??? Was starting to figure it out too...but no clue where the quote tags are lurking....

The olde geezer is trying to figure it out...God knows if I can drive a stick shift I can figure out a computer....maybe....

**tulloch** · 9th February 12, 07:07 AM

In the words of Winston Churchill, "Never, never, never give up."

**Tartan Hiker** · 9th February 12, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

And ummm....where do these quote tag thingies come from??? Was starting to figure it out too...but no clue where the quote tags are lurking....

They are on your keyboard, Ron. The brackets are right beside the P.

**Riverkilt** · 9th February 12, 08:11 AM

Who knew? Thanks. Thought they were for editorialized comments in a sentence, no clue they did double duty. Learned something today.

**sailortats** · 9th February 12, 08:37 AM

[QUOTE=Riverkilt;1063659 God knows if I can drive a stick shift I can figure out a computer....maybe....[/QUOTE]

the emphasis should be on the "maybe" here. I drove a stick shift for more than 50 years and there just ain't no blankey blank way I can figure out the computer or any of these other i things. (i-phone, pad etc)

**seanachie** · 9th February 12, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Who knew? Thanks. Thought they were for editorialized comments in a sentence, no clue they did double duty. Learned something today.

That is how HTML (hyper text mark up language) works if you look at the code view for a web page you can see all of this. It has it's origins with an amazing physicist named Tim Berners Lee who wanted to share information with colleagues from the CERN labs.

If you remain curious look at the bare bones guide to html: http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html