How to Quote From a Member’s Post
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In Post Topic conversations that just have a few posts from only a few members, following along in the “back and forth” conversation is usually fairly straightforward. But, as time passes and more and more people add their thoughts with their own post replies, it can easily become overwhelming trying to figure out what question or part of a post someone is replying to from the 10, 20 or even more posts above.
This is where the beauty of quoting a Member comes into play!
Find the Member's post you would like to reply to with a quote and click the “Quote” button underneath.
Wait a second and the page will automatically scroll up to reveal the box where you will be writing your reply post. Inside you will see the Member's entire post displayed in a stylized gray quote box with the black “Posted By: [Member's Name]” heading at the top.
Clicking “Quote” produces a quote of a Member's entire post with their Display Name credited at the top
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Your blinking cursor should already be located underneath the gray quoted box, ready for you to begin writing your post.
So just start typing!
Easily adding text under a Quoted reply
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Want to Remove Some of theIR Quote?
If the Member's quote has more text than you'd prefer to include, you can modify the quoted area and manually remove all of the unwanted text.
This process is especially helpful if you are only replying to a small portion of what the person wrote, and you want others reading your post to only focus on the part of the Member's post you are addressing.
- Click and highlight the part of the Member's post you want to remove.
- Hit Delete on your keyboard.
- When you are finished removing the portion(s) you'd like to remove, click down in the empty area underneath the gray quote box and type your post.
Deleting a partial amount of text from the entire quoted post
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- Find the Member's post you would like to reply to with an included quote.
- Click and highlight all of the Member's text you want to include in your post.
- Copy the content to your computer's invisible clipboard.
Highlight and copy the portion of another Member's post you would like to quote, to your computer's clipboard
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- Scroll down the page to until you see the empty “Leave a reply” box where you can type in your post.
- In the row of buttons that runs along the top, click on the one with the quotation mark () called the “Blockquote” button.
- A gray stylized quote box will pop into place in the typing area with your blinking cursor already inside ready to add in the quoted text.
Click “Blockquote” button to create a blockquote box
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With your cursor still inside the gray quoted box, paste in the quoted text.
Paste Member's text inside the Blockquote box
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At this point, your cursor will be positioned at the end of the text you just pasted in. Now, you are able to start typing your post, but you first need to get the cursor out of the gray quote box, and down to the white empty typing space.
Typically in this situation, mousing down and clicking in the empty space won't work. Instead, hit the Enter or Return key on your keyboard twice. The first time moves your cursor down to the next line in the quoted box, and then the second time moves your cursor all the way out from the quote box and down into the white empty space.
Hit “Return” or “Enter” twice to place cursor down in empty typing area
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Now that your blinking cursor is underneath the gray quote box, you are able to begin writing your post.
So just start typing!
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- Highlight and copy the Member's text you would like to quote.
- Paste the Member's text in your reply box were you would like it.
- Highlight all of the Member's text you just pasted in.
- With the text highlighted, click on the “Blockquote” () button.
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