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OK- I feel pretty dumb writing this, as I have been on A2K forever. Nevertheless, there is one thing that I have never figured out.

You are writing a reply, and want to quote another member who wrote in a previous post. When I do this I get the quotation, and on top of the box with the quote it says, "quote".

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OK- I feel pretty dumb writing this, as I have been on A2K forever. Nevertheless, there is one thing that I have never figured out.

How to I get it to say, "phoenix32890 said", instead of just "quote"?

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Phoenix32890 wrote:

OK- I feel pretty dumb writing this, as I have been on A2K forever. Nevertheless, there is one thing that I have never figured out.

You are writing a reply, and want to quote another member who wrote in a previous post. When I do this I get the quotation, and on top of the box with the quote it says, "quote".

Quote:
OK- I feel pretty dumb writing this, as I have been on A2K forever. Nevertheless, there is one thing that I have never figured out.

How to I get it to say, "phoenix32890 said", instead of just "quote"?

like this

really phoenix i just figured out how to put quotes in myself...but i think now if you came back and hit quotes it would say phoenix said...

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willow_tl - Great- but how the heck did you do it?

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Phoenix32890 wrote:

willow_tl - Great- but how the heck did you do it?

i hit the little box that says quote and it takes me here to post reply...i hope that helps Phoenix Smile

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willow_tl wrote:

Phoenix32890 wrote:
willow_tl - Great- but how the heck did you do it?

i hit the little box that says quote and it takes me here to post reply...i hope that helps Phoenix

OK. So now I have my quote and your quote. What if I only wanted to quote your sentence, and not mine?

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eeeeeeeeek too complicated for me Phoenix..where is craven when you really need him :-)

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willow_tl- I really appreciate your help. At least now I am on the right track!

Now, if someone knows the answer to the other part........................

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Phoenix32890 wrote:

Now, if someone knows the answer to the other part.......................

First of course click on :

Then you can delete some sentences in the quote,like this:

Phoenix32890 wrote:

Now, if someone knows the answer

Phoenix32890 wrote:

Now

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Phoenix, in answer to you request fron another thread. I'm only partially conversant with this system myself. This nis what I do. To determine what part of a post I want to quote, I hit the "quote button and the post I want to quote from appears. That post also contains the internal commands that identifies the poster etc. To take out quotes embedded the post I want to quote from (this is getting Byzantine) I look for the embedded quote and its commands and highlight them with my cursor (on my computer the highlighted section turns blue) I then hit the space bar on my key board and delete the highlighted section. I hope this helps.

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Thok wrote:

Then you can delete some sentences in the quote,like this:

I think I've got it!!!!! Thanks Thok & Acquiunk!

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Just look at the code being used. You can write it out yourself if you want...

Code:[quote]Some random thing worth quoting...[/quote]

Makes:

Quote:

Some random thing worth quoting...

...And...

Code:[quote="I"]Another random quote...[/quote]

Makes:

I wrote:

Another random quote...

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If the post is very long, and I only want to excerpt a small part of it, it might be easier to type:

Phoenix32890 wrote:

Then I would copy and paste just the words that I wanted.

Then I would end with

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The reason that the writing is not in green is because I had to disable the BB code on that post in order to show you what I did!

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Good question Phoenix. I've been trying to figure out how to do different stuff with the quotes.

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Montana wrote:

I've been trying to figure out how to do different stuff with the quotes.

So you've got it now,too?

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I'm not sure yet. I'm going to play around with it when I get the chance ;-)

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Monger- Thanks for the tip. It looks like I had just figured it out at the same time that you had written your post!

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Montana- I just found an easy way to do it. I highlight what I want to quote. I copy and paste to the response box. I hit, "Quote". I then add, ="the member's name" right after [Quote.

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