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March 18th, 2005, 12:40 AM
drumaddix

i've been trying for months now to use the 'quote' option but always failed so far.
I'm sure i'm not the only one on this board,having a hard time with it.
Someone please give me a clear explanation on how to use it.
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March 18th, 2005, 12:51 AM
Dazzler

Quote:

i've been trying for months now to use the 'quote' option but always failed so far.
I'm sure i'm not the only one on this board,having a hard time with it.
Someone please give me a clear explanation on how to use it.

sorry, you'll have to ask someone else. [img]graemlins/wilted.gif[/img]
March 18th, 2005, 12:53 AM
troutbrooke

[ March 18, 2005 07:02 PM: Message edited by: drumming sort of person ]
March 18th, 2005, 12:56 AM
drumaddix

alright alright...
you guys are funny!!!
i have to give you a big LOOOOOOOOOL for this one.
But this won't solve my problem right??
Feels good to be laughed at tho'. [img]wink.gif[/img]
March 18th, 2005, 01:02 AM
Groovissimo

Quote:

i've been trying for months now to use the 'quote' option but always failed so far.
I'm sure i'm not the only one on this board,having a hard time with it.
Someone please give me a clear explanation on how to use it.

I am trying this too...
When you go to "add reply", click on Quote. You will get two words called quote in your reply box. Then go to the sentence you want to quote, darken it with your curser, copy/paste in between the two quote words in the reply box.

Is this right ?
March 18th, 2005, 01:20 AM
Dazzler

Exactly Groover... highlight the text, right click and 'copy' the text. Then click the REPLY button. When the reply page has loaded, Click the QUOTE button, right click and 'paste' the text. Any text in between the 2 Q's is then quoted when you reply.

Hope this helps.

........ Drumming sort of person, may I suggest that before you bulldoze in with a holier than thou bullshit retort, you look to check for HUMOUR in the post??? I took it for granted that it would be fairly self evident.

It's like you were 'telling teacher' when you went crying to Steve!

Quote:

You think that's cool, Steve Holmes can edit other people's posts! Now THAT'S fun.

Come on now DSOP, surely we're all ADULTS here?!? [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img]
March 18th, 2005, 02:16 AM
drumaddix

DAZ,GROOVISSIMO:thanks a bunch mates.
But i might be misdoin' something there.
how come i can't copy/paste???
I can highlight text but when i release the left button of the mouse,text won't stay highlighted. [img]eek.gif[/img]
Therefore,no copy paste!!
Could it be because of my using Firefox as main browser?
March 18th, 2005, 07:02 AM
FuseU1

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"Howz'bout them Axis Longboard pedals, huh?!"
March 18th, 2005, 07:11 AM
FuseU1

drumaddix - c & p:

HighLight the orig text by L clicking & holding down & dragging across the desired text until it is HL'd; release L click;

put mouse cursor direcly on the just HL'd portion, R click, L click on "copy" in the box that comes up, with your mouse.

Then, R click between the "quotes" symbols [mentioned earlier], & L click on "paste" with mouse.

That should do it. [img]cool.gif[/img]

[ March 18, 2005 03:14 AM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]
March 18th, 2005, 09:27 AM
donu

Talking about technical difficulties on forum i have one since a moment: when i reply to a PM the original message disappear after i reply [img]rolleyes.gif[/img] , it's new that doesn't occur before, my space used on PM is not too much ( just 20 % )

Any advice ?

Thank's [img]wink.gif[/img]
March 18th, 2005, 11:16 AM
moosetication

Quote:

Originally posted by drumaddix:
Someone please give me a clear explanation on how to use it.

When you want to reply and quote the original, don't use the "Reply" button. Instead, hit the "quote marks" http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/quote_ubb6.gif button (the rightmost icon in the row) directly above the original post you want to quote. The reply form will load with the entire post quoted with the correct tags around it. Then just edit out the bits you don't need.

[ March 18, 2005 07:17 AM: Message edited by: moosetication ]
March 18th, 2005, 12:14 PM
Dazzler

Quote:

Originally posted by moosetication:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by drumaddix:
[qb]Someone please give me a clear explanation on how to use it.

When you want to reply and quote the original, don't use the "Reply" button. Instead, hit the "quote marks" http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/quote_ubb6.gif button (the rightmost icon in the row) directly above the original post you want to quote. The reply form will load with the entire post quoted with the correct tags around it. Then just edit out the bits you don't need.
<hr /></blockquote>aaaaah, so THAT'S how you do it properly!! Cheers Moose. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/beer.gif[/img] [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
March 18th, 2005, 01:00 PM
erskoman

"aaaaah, so THAT'S how you do it properly!! Cheers Moose."

colored text, too

underlined, BIG or GREEN

Wow, this is fun ... I had no idea. By the way ... I listened to some of that Sean Rickman live performance that was posted recently, and thought it some of the most incredible drumming that I'd ever heard. I guess I misunderstood the post... I was expecting to hear Vinnie (and was curious to see what he was up to these days), and immediately afterwards I told my wife "Wow, I just heard THE most incredible Vinnie recording ... the guy is doing stuff that I would have thought impossible to do, except of course that Vinnie can do it!" ETC., but then when I checked back I saw that it was Sean Rickman. Holy Cow; it inspired me to start practicing seriously again. That's some mighty fearless drumming there ...

best wishes to all.

PE

P.S. but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD and in that kind of separated/big line format-thing that I see on a lot of posts?

a Mac user with a simple one-click mouse
March 18th, 2005, 01:29 PM
moosetication

Quote:

Originally posted by erskoman:
but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD and in that kind of separated/big line format-thing that I see on a lot of posts?

When you click the quotes button, it puts the special Hostboard tags around it, like this...

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<table border="0" width="90%" bgcolor="#333333" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0"><tr><td width="100%"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FF9900"><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><pre>{QUOTE}Originally posted by erskoman:
{QB}but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD...{/QB}{/QUOTE}</pre></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE>

...except with brackets rather than braces around them. Those tags are what do the "indented and bold" thing. You need to be careful not to accidentally delete them, or (as you did) end up putting the entire reply inside them, 'cos that confuses the bejesus out of Hostboard.
March 18th, 2005, 01:32 PM
peter b

Quote:

Originally posted by erskoman:
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Wow, this is fun ...

P.S. but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD and in that kind of separated/big line format-thing that I see on a lot of posts?

ahhhhhhh! i got it! ok peter, as moose said. don't hit 'reply'. hit the qoutes icon directly above the post you are quoting. it auto loads. then hi-light the stuff you don't want, and 'cut'. it didn't seem to work when i hi-lighted and hit the backspace to clear it.
try that...
March 18th, 2005, 02:51 PM
erskoman

Quote:

Originally posted by zombywoof:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by erskoman:
"

Wow, this is fun ...

P.S. but how do you get the quotes to appear BOLD and in that kind of separated/big line format-thing that I see on a lot of posts?

ahhhhhhh! i got it! ok peter, as moose said. don't hit 'reply'. hit the qoutes icon directly above the post you are quoting. it auto loads. then hi-light the stuff you don't want, and 'cut'. it didn't seem to work when i hi-lighted and hit the backspace to clear it.
try that...<hr /></blockquote>I think I got it ... Thanks! [img]graemlins/smarty.gif[/img]
March 18th, 2005, 04:22 PM
Steve Holmes

Heh, it was me the edited DSOP's post.
That was kind of the point! [img]wink.gif[/img]
March 18th, 2005, 07:52 PM
FuseU1

Yeah. moosetication has actually stated the best & easiest way.

Wow. Da Rick just got the big phat 2 [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] s up from one ERSKO...now he can put THAT on his resume too![?]...& compared him to [some guy named] VINNIE. Look out! ;c)
Woot! [img]cool.gif[/img]

[ March 18, 2005 04:07 PM: Message edited by: fuseU1 ]
March 18th, 2005, 11:07 PM
troutbrooke

Quote:

Originally posted by Dazzler:
........ Drumming sort of person, may I suggest that before you bulldoze in with a holier than thou retort, you look to check for HUMOUR in the post??? I took it for granted that it would be fairly self evident.

I did, and it was, and so was mine.

[ March 19, 2005 02:21 AM: Message edited by: drumming sort of person ]