Ha ha - this whole topic has given me the giggles and i am still none the wiser... i am usually very good at this sort of stuff, but i still can't manage to quote just part of someones post rather than the whole thing! No need to explain it to me again - i will re-read and try again
Also had to reread and try it out a few times. Strannik, thanks for starting this post. I've been curious about it for a while. However, the mistake in the first post led to me misunderstand how to do this, as I didn't really follow/bother with subsequent posts because of it. Could you edit or add to your
first post to clear up the misunderstanding (even though I realise you did that later in the thread)? Others like me might just be inclined to read the first post and then give up.
RE: Multi - quoting
vBulletin can do this ... see the three buttons in the bottom right of each post?
If you don't happen to be logged on when you read this post, you won't see the three buttons in the bottom right of each post.
I generally just quote the persons body once and delete the parts that are not relevant to my response. People can figure out easily enough what you're referring to.
I do that with a single quote but with multi-quoting I found this alternative useful:
Open a new word document.
From thread: Highlight and successively paste into Word document each of the lines/paragrahs in the thread that you want to quote.
Add your comments between the those paragraphs.
In Word: At the beginning of each section that you want to show as a quote, type in the word 'quote' enclosed by square brackets. (only really need to type it once and then it can be copied and pasted each time.)
At the end of each section that you want to show as a quote, type in the following: /quote (enclosed in the square brackets.) (Can copy and paste again).
On Word: Under 'edit' choose 'select all' then right click & select copy.
In Thread: Open up the 'post reply'
In Thread: Paste it all into the newly opened reply box.
Of course then you can preview to make sure that you have got it right.
This is just a variation on previous comments on how to multi-quote but it may help someone, even though there will be too much detail for many. It made it easier to see what I wanted to write as it was on a larger page and there wasn't the distraction of the quote tags in there.
Also, it took a while to discover that if you decide
not to use the 'multi-quote' icon at the bottom of a post after having selected it, then it needs to be 'turned off' (ie clicked on so that it is no longer hightlighted) if you didn't want to use this method.
Hope this helps rather than confuses...
Whozat
Me too.
