Multiquoting-how to do it?



I'm selecting the text and hitting the button until it goes red each time and then hitting post reply but I can't get it to wrap quotes individually.

Not to worry. I don't really need to quote. Just wondered as I didn't know how to do it and everyone seems to do it. Thanks anyway.
 
PM1234 said:
I'm selecting the text and hitting the button until it goes red each time and then hitting post reply but I can't get it to wrap quotes individually.
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I don't know what you mean "wrap quotes individually". It just works for me - i.e. the contents of each post selected for quoting is wrapped in its own set of quote/endquote tags.
 
DrMoriarty said:
It may be helpful to point out that considerable fun may be had using this feature. But don't quote me on that.
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It works if I click on different posts but not quotes within the same post. I'm getting concerned that I'm hijacking this thread. Apologies.
 
PM1234 said:
It works if I click on different posts but not quotes within the same post.
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If you mean quoting a post that itself contains quotes then as mentioned earlier vBulletin (or at least our version and configuration) does not do such "recursive" or "nested" quoting - it just quotes the original poster's content from the selected post and not anything that they in turn quoted.
 

I meant taking posts such as above ie written by you within one post and getting them to quote individually so it looks like:

It's the first icon in my post above which appears on each post when viewing a thread.
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Are you talking about on the message composition page? If so you are in the wrong place and you need to go back to the thread contents page.
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with the original posters name attached as in:

ClubMan said:
This is taking a lot of your name and it really isn't a priority. Many thanks anyway for your help.
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OK - I get you now. You cannot do this without manual intervention. If I quote a post by somebody and want to split it and comment on individual bits then I normally just leave the first bit with their name and link to the original post and then manually add the necessary end/start quote tags to delimit the other bits but without the same info again. (I think you can use formatting buttons to wrap text in quotes too but I fine it easier to do it manually). When multi-quoting (i.e. quoting several people's posts) I normally comment on one person's post and then another person's etc. The first part of each person's post is introduced by their name and the link. It works fine and it's a lot less hassle than adding the name/link to the start of every quote and this is usually totally unnecessary anyway.
 
Many thanks. I thought I was missing something very simple by manually formatting it and it could be done automatically. Thanks for your time and patience.
 
Wasn't sure about that last one either PM1234 - like you, thought there might have been an easier way to comment on 'split' sections of posts rather than doing so manually.
 
I don't think that there is. You can use the quote button on the Go Advanced posting page to wrap selected text in quote tags but apart from that (or using my manual approach to doing the same thing) I know of no other way to split a quoted post into separate quoted bits.
 
Another question! How come theres some posters names in non bold type e.g Honney and post number says n/a?
 
Non-registered users are permitted to post in this forum that is why the name Honney shows post number n/a.

Marion
 

Caveat. i hit the multi quote on your post above. Yes it turns red but thats as far as i get... talk me through this again please? TYPE SLOWLY now please...
 
When it turns red..hit the Post Reply button then! The red buttons you click will be the amount of messages quoted when you hit Post Reply then.
 
To reiterate what swordshead said...

Click on each post that you want to quote. It turns to indicating that it's selected for multi-quoting (click again to deselect if you chose the wrong post and it reverts to indicating that it is no longer selected for multi-quoting). Then hit and all selected posts will appear quoted in the reply composition edit control.

You can also select all but the last post that you want to quote and then just click on the final one.
 
swordshead said:
When it turns red..hit the Post Reply button then! The red buttons you click will be the amount of messages quoted when you hit Post Reply then.
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Ive just realised Shootingstar might want to multiquote in just one message..i.e. take bits out of only one message in a multiquote format with the quoted bits in a blue box! Dont know how to do that without putting [/quote] beside the words you want to quote.
 
Yeah - if you want to "multi-quote" multiple bits of the one post then you need to do it manually or else by selecting each bit of the original post and using the quote button when composing the reply. You also need to make sure that you don't leave extraneous or unbalanced .
 
swordshead said:
When it turns red..hit the Post Reply button then! The red buttons you click will be the amount of messages quoted when you hit Post Reply then.
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yeah look what ive done....




go me go me go me.....

(ok this better work or im gona look a right pratt!!! )
 
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