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Can anyone tell me how to post a quote on this forum? After an hour of frustration, I gave up.
 
Can anyone tell me how to post a quote on this forum? After an hour of frustration, I gave up.
It is all explained in the BB Code Help page. Click on the link at the bottom right corner of the composition window.

This is a sample of the code:
Code:
[quote]
This is sample text
[/quote]

Which will display as:
This is sample text
 
It is all explained in the BB Code Help page. Click on the link at the bottom right corner of the composition window.

This is a sample of the code:
Code:
[quote]
This is sample text
[/quote]

Which will display as:

Thanks for the help, but I found the help page to be worthless. I really need a step-by-step method on how to post a quote in a reply.
 
Thanks for the help, but I found the help page to be worthless. I really need a step-by-step method on how to post a quote in a reply.

Hit "reply" to my message.

Find the wording from the source (whatever it is) you want to quote.

Highlight it with your mouse. Right click on the highlighted version. Click on "copy".

Come back to this message that you are replying to. Right click in the message and click on "paste."

Once you have pasted the wording you wish to quote. Highlight the wording again in your reply to this message.

Once it is highlighted, click on the text bubble in the icons above (it is 3 to the right of the happy face, and it is next to the icon of the envelope with the "plus sign").

At that point, the wording you wish to quote should be between the quote code noted by a previous poster.

If so, you have correctly quoted the language.
 
thanks for the help but I could not get it to work. I did as you say but when I copy, then go back and right click on the original message, paste is not an option. this sounds a bit complicated, all I want to do is post a quote in a reply. I thought the quote button is what you use.
 
thanks for the help but I could not get it to work. I did as you say but when I copy, then go back and right click on the original message, paste is not an option. this sounds a bit complicated, all I want to do is post a quote in a reply. I thought the quote button is what you use.

OK. Try this. If you cannot do it this time, I would suggest giving up.

After you hit "reply" to this message, click on the text bubble in the icons above the message (it is 3 to the right of the happy face, and it is next to the icon of the envelope with the "plus sign").

A variation of the following should appear in the message:
[\quote]

Type (or paste) whatever message you want quoted between the two "quotes" in brackets so it appears as the following:

This is sample text
[\quote]
 
Hit "reply" to my message.

Find the wording from the source (whatever it is) you want to quote.

Highlight it with your mouse. Right click on the highlighted version. Click on "copy".

Come back to this message that you are replying to. Right click in the message and click on "paste."

Once you have pasted the wording you wish to quote. Highlight the wording again in your reply to this message.

Once it is highlighted, click on the text bubble in the icons above (it is 3 to the right of the happy face, and it is next to the icon of the envelope with the "plus sign").

At that point, the wording you wish to quote should be between the quote code noted by a previous poster.

If so, you have correctly quoted the language.
If so, you have correctly quoted the language
 
Hit "reply" to my message.

Find the wording from the source (whatever it is) you want to quote.

Highlight it with your mouse. Right click on the highlighted version. Click on "copy".

Come back to this message that you are replying to. Right click in the message and click on "paste."

Once you have pasted the wording you wish to quote. Highlight the wording again in your reply to this message.

Once it is highlighted, click on the text bubble in the icons above (it is 3 to the right of the happy face, and it is next to the icon of the envelope with the "plus sign").

At that point, the wording you wish to quote should be between the quote code noted by a previous poster.

If so, you have correctly quoted the language.
If so, you have correctly quoted the language
 

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