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For Ira - and anyone else who has a problem with quotes

Postby Joseph » Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:42 am

In doing this, don't type the asterisks in what follows. I put them in to disable the quote function.

Type [quote*] at the beginning of what you want in a quote, and [/quote*] at the end. Simple!

If you want to get fancy, you indicate who said what with [quote="username"] (quotation marks are needed) at the beginning of the quote instead of [quote] but I tend to do that only at the beginning of a post.

Hope that helps!

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Postby RKH » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:13 am

In doing this, don't type the asterisks in what follows. I put them in to disable the quote function.

Type [quote*] at the beginning of what you want in a quote, and [/quoute*] at the end. Simple!

Dropping the second "u" in quote might help, too. :o
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Postby Joseph » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:16 am

RKH wrote:Dropping the second "u" in quote might help, too.

What second "u"?

Rats! The edit function told on me... :lol:

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Re: For Ira - and anyone else who has a problem with quotes

Postby Ira » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:27 am

Joseph wrote:Hope that helps!

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It didn't--I'm still a retard when it comes to this.

We'll have another political argument later and I'll try then. My office is closing at noon.
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Postby Miriam C. » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:32 am

Thanks Joseph,
Is that how you split up quotes and get them right?

It didn't work so I edited. Think I will stick with the highlight and push the quote button.
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Postby Joseph » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:52 am

Miriam C. wrote:Thanks Joseph,
Is that how you split up quotes and get them right?

You're welcome and yes. :thumbsup:
It didn't work so I edited. Think I will stick with the highlight and push the quote button.

The hard part for me is typing the brackets "[]" - I oftentimes do it with the shift key so I get "{}" which doesn't work.

But the best recommendation I can offer if you have a problem with it is to use the preview button to see what your message looks like. Then you can fix any boo-boos that aren't obvious in the typing screen.

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Re: For Ira - and anyone else who has a problem with quotes

Postby Joseph » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:53 am

Ira wrote:We'll have another political argument later and I'll try then. My office is closing at noon.

I'll be here. Hope you will be too!

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Postby Miriam C. » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:05 am

Ok, trying again.

But the best recommendation I can offer if you have a problem with it is to use the preview button to see what your message looks like. Then you can fix any boo-boos that aren't obvious in the typing screen
.

Type [quote*] at the beginning of what you want in a quote, and [/quote*] at the end. Simple!

If you want to get fancy, you indicate who said what with
username wrote: (quotation marks are needed) at the beginning of the quote instead of
but I tend to do that only at the beginning of a post.

Hope that helps!

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I took the asterics out and it worked. Thanks for the tip.
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Postby SmokeyBob » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:27 am

Joseph, thanks for the info on quotes. :thumbsup:

Been woundering how to do that :thinking:
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Postby Joseph » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:41 am

Miriam C. wrote:I took the asterics out and it worked. Thanks for the tip.

Glad to help. The quote button on a highlighted section of text works too, but I find when I'm typing it's easier for me to do it this way. But then, I'm actually a ten-fingered typist - one of the few things I learned in high school that I actually USE! :lol:

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Postby Miriam C. » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:05 pm

Joseph wrote:
Miriam C. wrote:I took the asterics out and it worked. Thanks for the tip.

Glad to help. The quote button on a highlighted section of text works too, but I find when I'm typing it's easier for me to do it this way. But then, I'm actually a ten-fingered typist - one of the few things I learned in high school that I actually USE! :lol:

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:lol: They didn't give keyboarding when I was in school. Didn't exist. I do type with 10 fingers, they just don't always do what they are supposed to do.
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Postby Joseph » Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:32 pm

Miriam C. wrote:They didn't give keyboarding when I was in school. Didn't exist.

We didn't have it either, but we did have typewriters. Remember those? I don't remember if they were electric or manual, but I think they were manual. I know I used a manual all through college. I may even still have it around somewhere, though God only knows where I could find a ribbon. Probably have to have the one in it re-inked if I wanted to take it out and play with it...

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Postby Miriam C. » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:16 pm

Joseph wrote:
Miriam C. wrote:They didn't give keyboarding when I was in school. Didn't exist.

We didn't have it either, but we did have typewriters. Remember those? I don't remember if they were electric or manual, but I think they were manual. I know I used a manual all through college. I may even still have it around somewhere, though God only knows where I could find a ribbon. Probably have to have the one in it re-inked if I wanted to take it out and play with it...

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I actually have a manual under the bed. Have an extra ribbon too. I didn't want to run out on a holiday weekend with papers to type. :?

Truth is my children were all in school before I went to college so I took typing to facilitate the mass of paper writing and learned keyboarding at the same time. 8)
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Postby TomS » Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:33 pm

I know I've been spending too much time on this forum when I go to work and start writing HTML like this:

[table width="500" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0]
[tr]
[td colspan=2 align="right'" class="text"]


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Postby mikeschn » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:45 pm

TomS wrote:I know I've been spending too much time on this forum when I go to work and start writing HTML like this:

[table width="500" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0]
[tr]
[td colspan=2 align="right'" class="text"]


:lol:


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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