Quoting text and other formating instructions.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:06 pm
Here is how to quote text or and entire post. Please don't post to this thread should you read it before I post again.
If you find a post that you would like to quote the enitire thread then while viewing that particular post look up at the top right corner. There with be a button labeled "Quote".N9149A wrote:Here is how to quote text or and entire post. Please don't post to this thread should you read it before I post again.
Clicking it will create a reply box with the post quoted. It will look like this:
[ quote="N9149A"]Here is how to quote text or and entire post. Please don't post to this thread should you read it before I post again.[/quote]
When previewed will look like:
If you want to edit the quote to just a few words or sentences then in the reply box go into the quoted text and erase what you don't want like this:N9149A wrote:Here is how to quote text or and entire post. Please don't post to this thread should you read it before I post again.
[ quote="N9149A"]Here is how to quote text or and entire post. [/quote]
Just don't change anything in between the square bracketed tag at the beginning and the end of the quote.N9149A wrote:Here is how to quote text or and entire post.
All other style features work the same. There is a tag generated to start the format, then the text and a tag to stop the style. If you know the tag you can type in manually but the easiest way is to click on the various buttons above the message box. Here is how to do bold text. First click the "B" button that generates a [ b]. Then type your text. Look at the "B" Button again. Notice the asterisk?. Clicking the "B" button again wlll now generate [ /b].
Here is what it looks like till you submit the post: [ b]Bold text[ /b]
Then it looks like this:Bold text One problem you might encounter is inserting styled text into a paragraph. Clicking the "B" button sometimes puts the tag at the end of your post. If that is the case just copy and paste it in the correct place.
If you want to bold text after you type it then go back and using the mouse and curser select the text you want to bold and click the "B" button. Doing so places the correct tags into the text in the right spot.
All the style buttons work the same as the Bold "B" Button.
You can apply multiple styles to the same text which would look like this:
[ color=red][ u][ b]multiple styles to the same text[/b][/u][/color]
multiple styles to the same text.
In this case you must highlight the text and any tags generated in between selecting each style.
No matter what style you apply always use the "Preview" Button next to the "Submit" button to view your post and correct anything thats gone wrong. That is what I ALWAYS when using styles. Just don't forget to scroll down to and click the "Submit" Button when all looks good.
Feel free to use this thread to ask any styling (formating) questions and I'll be happy to answer then.
