quiltnweave;2244 said:
I still haven't really figured out this forum and didn't know how to post a reply to your post, so I am posting a reply to Roxanne's post
Mallands said:
Sandi - I have noticed to that you can only reply to the last poster.
Ladies...
You can quote anything you want to! It is really easy.
If you want to quote a specific post... look in the lower right corner of the post you want to reply to. There is a "Quote" button you can click on. If you click that button, you will be taken to a message editor window where you will see the text from that post inside of [ quote ] and [ /quote ] brackets. The first [ qoute ] will have an = sign with a name next to it. This is what gives the quote credit to whomever said it.
Another way to quote something someone said is to highlight the text you want to quote and respond to, then right click it, and choose the "copy" option. Then go to the post reply window (just like you normally do) and right click in the area where you want to insert the text, and choose "paste"! After you have done this, highlight that text again, and then click the little word balloon icon (left of the pound sign) on the editor window... above where you type your message. You will see that when you click this icon, it wraps the [ quote ] tags around the text you had selected. If you want to attribute that text to someone in particular (like I did with you guys above...) just add the "=Mallands" (or whomever) after the first quote... example [ quote=mallands ].
Want to have some fun? You can even do this...
Ed Sullivan said:
We're going to have a really big shooooow!
Another note. See how Sandy's quote above has a little arrow icon next to it? That is because I used the "quote" button in her post to reply to this thread. I deleted the rest of the text in her post after I got it here. If you click on that little arrow icon, you will be taken back to the post I am quoting her from (earlier in this thread) and there you can see her complete post, not just the sentence I left there. To quote Mallands, I just used the copy and paste method, and added the =Mallands to the quote. That is why there is no arrow near her quote. There is an easy way to add it there too, but that is for another lesson some day!
The big lesson is... Don't be afraid to experiment! You cannot hurt anything. If you screw up and don't like the way your post looks, you can delete it for up to 2 hours after you post it!
You ladies are having fun here, and thats what were looking for. You have a very active forum! Thanks for participating, and don't be afraid to ask for help!
Side note... in the examples I used above, I had to add a space between the [ and the quote. There are no spaces when you do it for real. I had to add the space to "fool" the software so it didn't treat my example as a real quote!