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Offline The Peregrine Chick

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Re: Locked down and gone forever?
« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2011, 01:57 »
Alternate Option #2

This one is even easier ...

1. Highlight and copy the text you want to quote in the locked thread. 

2. Go to the thread you want to put the quote and click on "Reply"

3. Now look above the text box, above the row of emoticons (smilies). The icon that looks like a message bubble (think comics) will insert "quote" command code.  The icon is second from the right end.  Click on the "quote" icon.  Two command codes will appear, each within square brackets. 

4. Paste your quote between the two command codes - the quote is in blue below
[ quote ] your quoted text goes here [ /quote ]

the end results looks like this:
Quote
your quoted text goes here

5. If you want to identify who you are quoting, put an equal sign after "quote" in the first comman code and type in their name ...
[ quote=The Peregrine Chick ] your quoted text goes here [ /quote ]

the end result looks like this:
Quote from: The Peregrine Chick
your quoted text goes here

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Re: Locked down and gone forever?
« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2011, 01:36 »
Alternate Option #1

Something else, that is probably even easier is,
1. go to the locked thread
2. click on the subject line of the post you want to quote/refer to
3. copy the URL in the URL address box at the top of your screen
4. go to the thread you want to post in
5. post your comments then paste the URL you copied

Now, when someone reads your post and they want to read the original quote, all they need to do is click on the URL, a new window will open and they will be able to read the original quote.

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Re: quoting from locked threads
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2009, 22:33 »
#2 it is.  Thanks, techie/goddess! 

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Re: quoting from locked threads
« Reply #20 on: June 03, 2009, 22:31 »
Two ways to do it ...

1.  highlight the text in the locked thread, right click your mouse, "copy", go to new thread, click on "reply", click on the quote icon above (see the two rows of buttons above - the first row starts with B for bold, second row second from the end is the quote icon) and then paste the text between the two quote statements - that will make it stand out as a quote.  Then add in your text after the second quote statement.

2.  find the locked thread, find the post you want to quote and check the reply number (top left corner), then copy the URL address.  Go to the new thread, click on "reply", click on the insert hyperlink icon (second button row, third from the left) and paste the URL between the url statements and then after the second url statement, type in your text and tell folks which reply in the locked thread they should go look at.

Good Luck!

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Re: quoting from locked threads
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2009, 18:13 »
It wouldn't highlight it to copy.  I'll try again...

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Re: quoting from locked threads
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2009, 21:33 »
really?  you couldn't cut and paste text from the screen?  weeeeeeeird.

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Re: quoting from locked threads
« Reply #17 on: June 01, 2009, 20:42 »
Okay, this is obviously a question for our Goddess.

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Re: quoting from locked threads
« Reply #16 on: June 01, 2009, 20:09 »
Well, I tried that before I posted -- I need to learn to say that.  It wouldn't let me copy. 

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Re: quoting from locked threads
« Reply #15 on: June 01, 2009, 20:05 »
Probably copy, and then paste where you want it.  You can highlight it in the new location to distinguish it as a quote.  That worked for me last season, as I recall.

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quoting from locked threads
« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2009, 18:32 »
How do I quote something from a locked thread, so that I can refer to it in another one? 

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Re: Locked down and gone forever?
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2008, 19:50 »
yes it does look great.

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Re: Locked down and gone forever?
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2008, 19:42 »
I'd say that's perfect!  Good thought. 

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Re: Locked down and gone forever?
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2008, 19:35 »
Oh! This is great fun...  Amazing what one finds to do while waiting around.

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Re: Locked down and gone forever?
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2008, 19:33 »
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Re: June 26 - Twenty Days Later
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2008, 13:17 »
Actually, they are just sort of playing in the box and messing (or "muffing") up the scrape in the box.  Imagine digging a hole in your garden for a plant and the neighbour's kid, cat, dog, squirrel comes and knocks the sides a bit or plays in it and the nice neat sides/bottom/edges you made are now kind of "muffed" up.


Let's see how this turned out.

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Re: Locked down and gone forever?
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2008, 19:28 »
Don't apologize -- I don't have a ton of experience either!  You could highlight it in a different colour -- that's a great idea!!, and it hadn't occured (sp?) to me.