Quote Originally Posted by Ozme52 View Post
[-QUOTE=Pearlgem;730105]Someone please tell me how to quote!

I can press the quote button and highlight text but I don't know how to transfer that onto my own reply.
If you start your reply first how do you then quote?
How do you quote from multiple sources and still keep a hold of your own reply?

Thank God I can at least 'submit new thread'!

Many thanks[-/QUOTE]

So, you type on the quoted piece in the first place like so...

If you press the quote button, it begins a reply with the full post you are quoting between [-QUOTE=poster-name] [-/QUOTE] (minus the dash, which I added so you can see the code.)

You can add your own text anywhere on the original text; you just have to make sure you get rid of other people's words you don't want...

Erase the parts you don't want to keep, add your own comments before the [-QUOTE] or after the [-/QUOTE]

If you're moving the quote to a post in another thread, after getting the quote, cut the entire thing, go to the thread you want it in, and paste it. Again, add your comments before or after.

I need to practice that, I would lose original post...

If you are in the middle of the post and want to fetch a piece in to quote... highlight and copy it. Either click the button that looks like a dialogue button (it says wrap text in quotes if you hover your mouse over it) and paste the quote between the two bits of quote-code. Add an =name if you desire... or just type [-quote] and [-/quote] before and after the part you're quoting.

I sometimes split a long quote into parts so my comments are interspersed. That's just a matter of typing [-/quote] my new comments[-quote] between the parts you want to separate.
and this bit is mine

Okay thanks, Oz, I'll have a bit of a practice soon as I see how this looks when I send it.

Regards,

Pearlgem x x