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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3205363, member: 56859&quot;]I can help a little with that, Insider, by showing you how to use the very handy Quote function.&nbsp; Clearly you&#039;re an intelligent man who enjoys spurring others to think but that is often lost in the multicolor chaos of your posts.&nbsp; It is often difficult to determine when you are writing your own thoughts versus when you are quoting someone, and who you are quoting.&nbsp; Your use of colors to indicate quotes is inconsistent so that hurts more than it helps.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are simple instructions for how to use this forum&#039;s quote function so your posts will no longer look like the work of an unmedicated manic.&nbsp; There are other ways to the deploy the quote function but for now I&#039;ll keep it basic.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Option 1:&nbsp; Quoting an entire post.</b>&nbsp; At the bottom right of the post you wish to quote, &quot;+ Quote&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]830610[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Option 2:&nbsp; Quoting part of a post.</b>&nbsp; Click and drag your cursor over the text you wish to quote.&nbsp; Upon releasing your finger, the text will remain highlighted and a small pop-up menu will offer the choices of &quot;+ Quote / Reply&quot; will appear.&nbsp; Click &quot;+ Quote&quot;.&nbsp; I think you&#039;ll like doing it this way since you enjoy critiquing posts sentence by sentence.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]830611[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can go through an entire thread clicking quote for various users&#039; posts or portions of their posts.&nbsp; When you&#039;ve gathered all the posts you wish to address, begin composing your reply.&nbsp; You&#039;ll see a button with &quot;Insert Quotes&quot; at the bottom left of the box where you type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]830627[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Click &quot;Insert Quotes.&quot;&nbsp; For purposes of this tutorial I&#039;ve selected several snippets from this thread.&nbsp; You&#039;ll see a larger pop-up which shows these quotes.&nbsp; You have the option to remove any or all of them and you can rearrange the order if desired.&nbsp; Isn&#039;t that great?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]830612[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After you&#039;ve reviewed the snippets, click the &quot;Quote These Messages&quot; button at the bottom right of the pop-up window.&nbsp; <i>The quotes will be placed at the current position of your cursor so make sure that cursor is where you want it to be within the body of your message.</i>&nbsp; Below is a screen shot of what this would look like after clicking Quote These Messages:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]830616[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you can type your heart out after each quote and everyone will be able to understand who you are quoting and which comments are your new thoughts.&nbsp; An example is below, with &quot;your&quot; responses in blue so you can more easily see where you are supposed to type.&nbsp; Note that using a special color for your new comments is not necessary now that you know how to use the quote function.&nbsp; The quoted passage will be neatly placed in a colored box once you post the reply.&nbsp; No more confusion, and the board will have just a little less nonsense. Yay!!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]830620[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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