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How to do 'originally posted by...'?

saveonarola
saveonarola Posts: 186 Forumite
Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
in Site feedback and Forum Help
This is a brilliant site. So glad I found it. One question: when posting, how do you do the 'originally posted by...' quote? I can see how to do a quote, but how do you add the 'originally posted by...' bit above it?

Thanks.

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  • Meepster
    Meepster Posts: 5,955 Forumite
    saveonarola wrote: »
    This is a brilliant site. So glad I found it. One question: when posting, how do you do the 'originally posted by...' quote? I can see how to do a quote, but how do you add the 'originally posted by...' bit above it?

    Thanks.

    It does it automatically when you quote someone...
    If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands

  • saveonarola
    saveonarola Posts: 186 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Meepster wrote: »
    It does it automatically when you quote someone...

    Ah, I see. It does it if you click the 'QUOTE' button. Not, however, if you click the 'Wrap
    tags around selected text' speech bubble in the reply window, which is what I'd been doing.
  • clemmatis
    clemmatis Posts: 3,168 Forumite
    ah, I hadn't seen the wrap quote button! good, that's a help. Well, saveonarola, if you want to use that one, then when you've used it, change
    to
    poster'sname wrote:

    like so
    saveonarola wrote:
    Ah, I see
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