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It's a box with what looks like an arrow in it to me.

Are you referring to the 'folding arrow' when you view quotes? Maybe post a screenshot and highlight what you're referring to?

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It's a box with what looks like an arrow in it to me. Click it and all the editiding feature bars disappear. I think I did what Greg said, but it's not working. However I just edited your comment, even with editing features enabled, so I don't know what's going on here.

I think you're describing the "collapse toolbar" box. The box you want to click on is on the opposite side of the tool bar - the first box on the upper left hand side as you're looking at your screen. It's right before the 'eraser' ("remove format" option) with the line over it and right above the "B" (bold) option.

It will prevent you from using the tool bar as it fades it out, but if you click on it again after you've edited the quote, you can use the tool bar features. Sometimes I have to click back and forth during the course of writing a post when I want to separate the quote into more than one quote box.

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HOWEVER, it is possible to disable the WYSIWYG and return to the simple text entry box that was used in older versions of the forum. To do this, click the tiny switch on the top left hand corner of the post box. That will disable the WYSIWYG editor, but you will still be able to using the quote and multi-quote feature.

Thanks Greg, that's apparently a good workaround.

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Developers take note: Software can live and die on such small features.

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Unfortunately, that upper left click button/icon on the edit ribbon has made havoc of the wraparound feature: words get cut in two according to some fixed character length. (I fear that if you go beyond 80 characters, like an IBM card, it's a wrap.)

They aren't cut it two when it's posted - just while composing the post.

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I have made some changes to the forum, and this issue now appears to be resolved. I can edit and make changes to the quotes and the whole quotation no longer disapears.

Please confirm...

Have any issues, problems using the forum? Post a message in the Support and Questions section of the forums.

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I have made some changes to the forum (wiped out part of sentence)

Please confirm...

Not working well. Hard or impossible to post material below quotes. I turned switch to do this.
  • Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone."
  • Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds.
  • Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location?
  • The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).

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I have made some changes to the forum, and this issue now appears to be resolved. I can edit and make changes to the quotes and the whole quotation no longer disapears.

Please confirm...

So far, so good. Thank you.

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It seems to be 'hit and miss' - still happens to me on occasion.

I think it depends on the browser/platform we are using. Some are using windows, macs, IE, Firefox, Safari, ect ect. mobile device?!?....each browser seems to interpret the coding of a site different, resulting in lost functionality.

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I think it depends on the browser/platform we are using. Some are using windows, macs, IE, Firefox, Safari, ect ect. mobile device?!?....each browser seems to interpret the coding of a site different, resulting in lost functionality.

Using the same browser on the same laptop, it's been hit and miss since Greg made his post asking for confirmation. Mostly it works fine, but sometimes it doesn't, and the whole quotation disappears.

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Using the same browser on the same laptop, it's been hit and miss since Greg made his post asking for confirmation. Mostly it works fine, but sometimes it doesn't, and the whole quotation disappears.

It seems to work well with the button on the upper left clicked.
  • Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone."
  • Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds.
  • Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location?
  • The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).

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Clear your cache: http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cache

If the problem still occurs, you need to descibe EXACTLY how you are experiencing the problem.

Have any issues, problems using the forum? Post a message in the Support and Questions section of the forums.

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I have made some changes to the forum, and this issue now appears to be resolved. I can edit and make changes to the quotes and the whole quotation no longer disapears.

Please confirm...

It's still crappy, Greg.

The quote feature enters blank lines, or creates whole new quotes, and I have to click on the upper left icon to clear them out in html. When I use the html icon, I have no easy access to web-links and word-wrap doesn't work.

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Greg, this is an Internet forum. I don't need fancy formatting. I want to be able to quote previous posts, and provide links. [To me, a really useful feature would give me an easy way to find my last post in a thread. A good search function would be good too.]

Frankly, I post here less often since this upgrade because it's now a hassle.

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Just lately a problem I've been having using the quote feature and switching back and forth between the formats is the appearance of [/size3] appearing randomly within the quotes and the response I am typing - and I have to manually delete them or they show up in my posts. Seems I'm always having to edit my posts - more than usual! :P - because of formatting problems. Don't know if anything can be done about this problem, but just thought I'd throw it out there for what it's worth.

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I think Greg's solution; the button, works great.

  • Free speech: "You can say what you want, but I don't have to lend you my megaphone."
  • Always remember that when you are in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you are in the wrong you cannot afford to lose it. - J.J. Reynolds.
  • Will the steps anyone is proposing to fight "climate change" reduce a single temperature, by a single degree, at a single location?
  • The mantra of "world opinion" or the views of the "international community" betrays flabby and weak reasoning (link).

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I think Greg's solution; the button, works great.

It doesn't.

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I've just clicked the switch thing so I can manually enter in the quote tags.

I like it.

So far the easiest solution for me.

Very easy.

Your results may vary

Breaking the quotes up like this is much simpler, and more productive. This should be the default. The automated system simply does not work as it should!

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Using the same browser on the same laptop, it's been hit and miss since Greg made his post asking for confirmation. Mostly it works fine, but sometimes it doesn't, and the whole quotation disappears.

In a few occasions where I replied to some comments, the tags got all messed up and after some frustration, I got them right .. then forgot what I was going to post .. so I did not post ...... :/

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To my mind, invision does a better job than products like facebook when it upgrades. Is it perfect ? No. We can ask for perfection, I guess, but we can't expect it.

Not asking for perfection, just something that is functional. An upgrade should not mean breaking the one thing we use the most. Quoting is a key integral part of a forum.

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