Forum Tip Quoting and Multi-Quote

Turtle

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Just a quick headsup on easier quoting.

When you want to reply, you can just scroll to the Quick Reply box and start typing. There will be no quoted text in the reply.

When you hit Quote, you will automatically quote that user's entire message in your reply.

If you are into a reply and realize you want to quote someone, or even at the very start and you want to add a quote from someone but not necessarily their entire post, you can go to their post and highlight the text you want to quote, and a popup menu will give you the option of "+MultiQuote" or "Quote" using the highlighted text.

There's a button on the toolbar just to the left of the camera button that gives you options for Quote, Spoiler, Code and Strike-through. Any highlighted text in your reply can be wrapped in quotes (or turned into hidden spoiler text, or strike-though, etc.). If you copy and past something from another Web site, that's the quickest way to have it as quoted text. You can also type in the [QUOTE] and [/QUOTE] for quotes, as always. This method lets you easy break up one long quote into several quoted chunks for replying to different sections of the quoted text. Just be sure to get rid of the initial [QUOTE] and [/QUOTE] code so you don't have stragglers that can do really weird things to your post (More Options and then Preview is also a good thing to do before posting).

If you want to quote several people in your reply, if they are all in the same thread you can simply hit "Quote" on each one and it will paste all the quotes into your reply box.

Something new is the "+MultiQuote" link next to the "Quote" link at the bottom right of people's posts. Using the +MultiQuote you can quote multiple posts from multiple threads without a complicated copy and paste ordeal. When you click on the "+MultiQuote" button (a toggle link, actually), down in the text box editor there will appear a little "Insert Quotes..." button (lower left of the text box, sort of). You can go to several threads and click the multi-quote button several different posts, and all of those will be placed on the clipboard, so to speak.

When you are ready to type your reply, go down to the "Insert Quotes..." button and click it. A popup will appear with all the text you've quoted, and there will be "Remove" links if you wish to remove any of them. You can also click and drag the quotes to reorder them. When you've got them the way you want, click the quote these messages button.

You can also do +MultiQuote on several quotes, then go and start a new thread, and the Insert Quotes button will be there at the bottom of the text box to the right of the Preview button.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. We hope you enjoy the new multi-quote and quoting options.
 

Turtle

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This is the Web Site Support & Services Forum. Please show a little decorum.
 
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