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Is it possible for someone to post a "How to" guide of sorts on quoting other posts properly and previewing your posts before they are posted? It sounds a bit petty, but it makes posts so much easier to read if they are done properly. I know Lightning McQueen will be with me on this one.

Just a thought? Quichey, LM, FC..?

How to quote - press the quote button
How to preview - press the preview button

That is all.

S Demon wrote:Is it possible for someone to post a "How to" guide of sorts on quoting other posts properly and previewing your posts before they are posted? It sounds a bit petty, but it makes posts so much easier to read if they are done properly. I know Lightning McQueen will be with me on this one.

Just a thought? Quichey, LM, FC..?

Too right, the preview button is your friend. You can't quote on 4 existing posts, you need to remove the earliest quote and the subsequent brackets that align that post, and that post only.
You can't tell who has written what half of the time.

Trader wrote:How to quote - press the quote button
How to preview - press the preview button

That is all.

That isn't all unfortunately mate. SD has a valid point.

[quote="Trader"]How to quote - press the quote button
How to preview - press the preview button

That is all.[/quote

If it were that simple we wouldn't have so many posts that look like this one...

Trader wrote:How to quote - press the quote button
How to preview - press the preview button

That is all.

When they should look like this one...

how do i quote two different 'seperate' posts?

If i manually type in ... [/quote] .... before the post will it work?
Or do i have to type it in at the end of post also?

Or do i never type it in and highlight the text i want and press quote?

The problem arises when a post exceeds the 4-quote limit and the user attempts to remove one of the quotes - quite often they remove part of the coding and it messes with their post. Then the next user quotes it and it's messed up their post, and then another user quotes that and so forth and you end up with a giant train wreck with dead bodies of text that I don't even bother reading because they're too far gone.

white line fever wrote:how do i quote two different 'seperate' posts?

If i manually type in ... [/quote] .... before the post will it work?
Or do i have to type it in at the end of post also?

Or do i never type it in and highlight the text i want and press quote?

When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.

Quichey wrote:

white line fever wrote:how do i quote two different 'seperate' posts?

If i manually type in ... [/quote] .... before the post will it work?
Or do i have to type it in at the end of post also?

Or do i never type it in and highlight the text i want and press quote?

When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.

lol, I didn't even know that, I just copy and paste!

Wedgie wrote:

Quichey wrote:

white line fever wrote:how do i quote two different 'seperate' posts?

If i manually type in ... [/quote] .... before the post will it work?
Or do i have to type it in at the end of post also?

Or do i never type it in and highlight the text i want and press quote?

When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.

lol, I didn't even know that, I just copy and paste!

OMG neither did I !!
And that's what I do too Wedgie !

Thankyou Q

You learn something every day

Here is the test...

Quichey wrote:
When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.

Wedgie wrote:
lol, I didn't even know that, I just copy and paste!

woohoo!

Sensational! This thread is working its magic already

Quichey wrote:Sensational! This thread is working its magic already

white line fever wrote:woohoo!

That's great!

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When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.[/quote ]

jeez im wasting my time as a postie i should be a computer IT bloke now i can do that. taken me 4 years to work it out well done sd 4 bringing it up again

hondo71 wrote:

Quichey wrote:Sensational! This thread is working its magic already

white line fever wrote:woohoo!

That's great!

I just thought I was an idiot

after reading this now I Know I was an idiot

White Line Fever wrote:Here is the test...

Quichey wrote:
When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.

Wedgie wrote:
lol, I didn't even know that, I just copy and paste!

TIRED TIGER wrote:[ ?

When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.[/quote ]

jeez im wasting my time as a postie i should be a computer IT bloke now i can do that. taken me 4 years to work it out well done sd 4 bringing it up again

Sorry,had to try it myself!

Kahuna wrote:

White Line Fever wrote:Here is the test...

Quichey wrote:
When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.

Wedgie wrote:
lol, I didn't even know that, I just copy and paste!

TIRED TIGER wrote:[ ?

When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.[/quote ]

jeez im wasting my time as a postie i should be a computer IT bloke now i can do that. taken me 4 years to work it out well done sd 4 bringing it up again

Sorry,had to try it myself!

Me too

TIRED TIGER wrote:[ ?

When you are in the 'reply' function, down the bottom of the screen you can scroll through the recent posts of a thread and hit the 'quote' button and it will bring it into your text box.[/quote ]

jeez im wasting my time as a postie i should be a computer IT bloke now i can do that. taken me 4 years to work it out well done sd 4 bringing it up again

You got that bit right TT, should have been a pro golfer I'm thinkin'!