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Eli_Barnabas

How do you quote other posts like I see many of you doing? What is the simplest way to do so? How do you take single lines out of the entire post and quote only them? Thank you very much.-Eli

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jeremyhulsey

Hi Eli,At the beginning of the section that you want to quote you type (except without the spaces) [ quote ]. Then you type or copy and paste what you are quoting. Then you type (without the spaces again) [ / quote ]. And that's how you do it.

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Eli_Barnabas

And that's how you do it.Thanks!

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sermonindex

Thanks!Thats great that you figured out how to do this! Its an awesome asset when replying to posts and making sense of peoples points. Glad to see you on the site dear brother.

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Eli_Barnabas

I am loving the quote option :-)

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dohzman

[Thank you very much.]see if this worked

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crsschk

Hi dohzman,Try it this way;You have the right brackets but you need the word "quote" contained in it. Using your example and subsituting the [ ] with ( ) for an example (If I use the brackets you won't see them when this is posted):It would look like this before you submit it:(quote)Thank you very much .(/quote)Try this using the brackets [ ] instead of the( )You can do the same thing automatically with the QUOTE button at the top of the response box. Just click on it, type what you want or cut and paste into it and hit "OK". you will also see the "language" in the same format as mentioned above here.

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dohzman

Thank you very much see if this works

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dohzman

Yes!!!!! it worked! Thank you Bro. Believe it or not my daughter who's in HS had to teach me how to use this silly cell phone. I'm soo behind the times in tech stuff. :-o :-? :-( :-) could figure which one was best to use so i used them all..

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Smokey

Yes!!!!!it worked!Wow it does work...

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crsschk

Hi dohzman,I still remember having the same problems early on...Here's a bit more.The same "formula" applies for the rest of these things and is called "HTML" for: "Hyper Text Mangling Language" :-P It is what you see below the write in box.It follows the same pattern as the "quoating" earlier. And again with the same practice as the "quote" and changing the ( ) to [ ]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For Bold it would be; (b)Bold(/b)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For Italics; (i)Italics(/i)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For Underlined; (u)Underlined(/u)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Now for doing two as an example, it is in the order, still the same 'language' only note the placement...For Both Bold and Italic; (b)(i)Both Bold and Italic(/i)(/b)It's an 'inside out' approach. Without the text:(b)(i) ........ (/i)(/b) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And it doesn't matter which comes first, the result will be the same as long as it's;'2 in and 2 out'At least that's how I try and remember it.(i)(b) ........ (/b)(/i)Will produce the same thing as above.And it still trips me up when I am doing multiple things like that and thankfully the "Preview" button is there to look at it, which, when the writing is haywire will usually cause one of these two reactions: :-? :-x 8-) P.S. Always use lower case letters when writing the language between the brackets....

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dohzman

I was wondering how everyone did that, thought maybe something was different in my key board and it just couldn't do that stuff. Lol. Thanks Bro. Appreciate the help. Bro. Daryl

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PreachParsly

Also < and > can replace [and] I didnt know that [ ] would even work

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crsschk

Well I'll be...Thanks brother, had no idea!

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