Multi quote know how...

perfumeflower

Hi,

I’m not sure if this is the correct place to post but here goes...
And I apologise if I sound a bit dim lol, can someone please tell me how to multi quote in regards to inserting more than one quote into your reply?

I have been trying to click on the light blue balloon icons, not working for me and not sure what I’m doing wrong ����


Thank you

dan958

Select all the light blue for which you want to quote, and on the last one just click the orange quote.

Sea_Shell

Does it still work like that if you want to quote from another thread?

Do you have to have each thread open on another tab?

I'm rubbish at this quoting malarkey too!!

googler

I usually copy/paste into Notepad or similar, and copy/paste the tags if necessary.

Every quote is prefixed with a quote tag, and concludes with an end quote tag. You see them in the reply box when you first quote someone

If you want to quote from multiple threads, copy/paste the quoted replies into Notepad, assemble them into a finished post, then hit Reply in the thread and copy/paste the whole shebang.

dan958

It will have to be the same thread, because as soon as you change thread, those selected boxes will no longer be selected.

If you would like to quote across threads, quote it in the initial thread and then select the BB code, copy this and paste it in the thread you want to use it in. e.g.

[ QUOTE=Sea Shell;76065492]Does it still work like that if you want to quote from another thread?

Do you have to have each thread open on another tab?

I'm rubbish at this quoting malarkey too!![/ QUOTE]

(I had to add spaces before the quotes so that it outputs the code, but you dont need to do that.

googler

perfumeflower wrote: »

Hi,

I’m not sure if this is the correct place to post but here goes...
And I apologise if I sound a bit dim lol, can someone please tell me how to multi quote in regards to inserting more than one quote into your reply?

I have been trying to click on the light blue balloon icons, not working for me and not sure what I’m doing wrong ����


Thank you

Then someone said;

dan958 wrote: »

Select all the light blue for which you want to quote, and on the last one just click the orange quote.

and someone else said

Sea_Shell wrote: »

Does it still work like that if you want to quote from another thread?

Do you have to have each thread open on another tab?

I'm rubbish at this quoting malarkey too!!

OP, is this the type of thing you want to do?

esuhl

I just hit right-click the Quote button and choose "open in new tab" for any quote I want to reply to, and then copy and paste the various quotes into a single reply box.


I've never been quite sure what the Multi-quote button does...

Manxman_in_exile

Well that's all very interesting. I've never been able to get the "Quote this and other posts in your reply" button to work (as some of you may have realised!)


I'll try some of these suggestions - although I don't understand all of them...

googler

What don't you understand?

googler

I've been experimenting

Pick the posts to be quoted, and in turn click the Multi-quote button, which shows a white tick when this is done. At the last quoted post, click the quote button, and ....

perfumeflower wrote: »

Hi,

I’m not sure if this is the correct place to post but here goes...
And I apologise if I sound a bit dim lol, can someone please tell me how to multi quote in regards to inserting more than one quote into your reply?

I have been trying to click on the light blue balloon icons, not working for me and not sure what I’m doing wrong ����


Thank you

dan958 wrote: »

Select all the light blue for which you want to quote, and on the last one just click the orange quote.

Sea_Shell wrote: »

Does it still work like that if you want to quote from another thread?

Do you have to have each thread open on another tab?

I'm rubbish at this quoting malarkey too!!

You can edit the posts if you want, you don't have to quote them in their entirety. For instance (copy/pasting and editing from the above);

perfumeflower wrote: »

... can someone please tell me how to multi quote

dan958 wrote: »

Select all the light blue for which you want to quote, and on the last one just click the orange quote.

Sea_Shell wrote: »

I'm rubbish at this quoting malarkey too!!

DCFC79

Sea_Shell wrote: »

Does it still work like that if you want to quote from another thread?

Do you have to have each thread open on another tab?

I'm rubbish at this quoting malarkey too!!

Why not test it in this thread.

esuhl wrote: »

I just hit right-click the Quote button and choose "open in new tab" for any quote I want to reply to, and then copy and paste the various quotes into a single reply box.


I've never been quite sure what the Multi-quote button does...

The multi quote button does (or should do) what it says, googler has provided an example.