Mulitiple quotes?

[SableLynx]

I have seen many of you chop up a quote and respond to the segments. Then each segment is in a seperate quote block and your response is either above or below that particular block. How do you do this? I have tried a couple of times and it does not work for me. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[reptilebreeder]

Well there's a couple ways. The easiest, which works best for taking different quotes from different posts is to
1. copy and paste what you want to quote, If I have several sections I want to do, I paste them on to word pad.
2.Then copy them into this box,
3.then right click and highlight what you want quoted
4. then up above there is a quote box, it's in the line above that has "B" "I" "U"......an insert pic button..... and so on. It's the last one that looks like a little text bubble in a comic strip. click on that and it will put the quote tags before and after the sentence/paragraph you had highlighted.
5. now you just put your reply after the end quote tag.
6. repeat as needed.

Say I'm quoting you here.

I have seen many of you chop up a quote and respond to the segments

Then answering you here.

Now I'm quoting from another post on the same thread (or even a different thread) I want to address at the same time

And answering them here.

As you can see this will give you "generic quotes"

 

[reptilebreeder]

I have seen many of you chop up a quote and respond to the segments. Then each segment is in a seperate quote block and your response is either above or below that particular block. How do you do this? I have tried a couple of times and it does not work for me. Thanks in advance for any help.

The second way is; there are two buttons on the bottom of a post, one is reply (on the lower left of a post) and one is a button that says "quote" it's actually in the body of the post on the bottom right hand side. You've probably used that one before, and it shows the whole post quoted in your reply. This one the quote is personalized. In this case the front tag has "=SableLynx" inside the first tag parameters [ ]. You can then break it up into multiple sections by copying and pasting the front tag to the front of each section you want to quote, and the end tag to the end of each sentence. Then you can reply to each section individually.
Some common mistakes;
1.Your curser is still inside the end quote tag, and you end up replying inside the quote.
2.Another common mistake is forgetting to make sure it has tags on both ends.
3. When you copy and paste one of the tags, many times either the [ or the ] doesn't get pasted so it looks like this

Now that I've probably over explained it the hard way.
I find it's easiest just to copy and paste everything and hit the "quote" button on each one and if I want the quotes personalized I just manually insert the "=reptilebreeder" and "=sablelynx" into the front tag.

 

[SableLynx]

Well there's a couple ways. The easiest, which works best for taking different quotes from different posts is to

Thanks John. So trying the first way

copy and paste what you want to quote,

I would copy and paste it then highlight, or select that phrase and select the quote option from the tool bar.

If I have several sections I want to do, I paste them on to word pad.

And if I have a crap load I can copy all the fragments to word pad, then copy the entire word pad document to the reply box where I would then procede to dissect it and add the quote boxes by again selecting the fragments then selecting the quote option from the tool bar and placing my personal opinion in between.

Now that I've probably over explained it the hard way.

Not at all I totally understood the first way. As you can see it WORKED. I have a good grasp of the second meathod too. I have tried that before but was not astute enough to realise there were seperate beginning and ending quote tags. Thanks again for your help John