How to breakup a quote?

[Thinkinoutsidethebox]

How do you split a quote into pieces so you can reply separately to different points a person is making?

I also can't figure out how multi quotes work 

Thanks.  

[Charles Anthony]

28 minutes ago, Thinkinoutsidethebox said:

How do you split a quote into pieces so you can reply separately to different points a person is making?

Enter 2 carriage returns inside at the point where you want to split the quote.  In this case, I put my cursor somewhere betwixt your ? and capital I of your next sentence quote below. 

28 minutes ago, Thinkinoutsidethebox said:

I also can't figure out how multi quotes work 

Click the "Quote" button associated with all of the posts you want quoted and they will all appear in your text window. 

[hot enough]

33 minutes ago, Thinkinoutsidethebox said:

How do you split a quote into pieces so you can reply separately to different points a person is making?

I put my cursor after the question mark after "making" above. Hit return twice and it will isolate the portion you want in a quote box, as above, and put the remainder, below, in another quote box. Wash, rinse, repeat as many times as needed.

33 minutes ago, Thinkinoutsidethebox said:

I also can't figure out how multi quotes work 

Thanks.  

 

[hot enough]

Darn that Charles Anthony. Why is he always so quick!!??

[Thinkinoutsidethebox]

9 minutes ago, Charles Anthony said:

Enter 2 carriage returns inside at the point where you want to split the quote.  In this case, I put my cursor somewhere betwixt your ? and capital I of your next sentence quote below. 

Works here...

9 minutes ago, Charles Anthony said:

Click the "Quote" button associated with all of the posts you want quoted and they will all appear in your text window. 

 

9 minutes ago, hot enough said:

I put my cursor after the question mark after "making" above. Hit return twice and it will isolate the portion you want in a quote box, as above, and put the remainder, below, in another quote box.

Now it doesn't work? What the heck 

Wash, rinse, repeat as many times as needed.

 

Now it works again... Maybe a little practice will get it

8 minutes ago, hot enough said:

Darn that Charles Anthony. Why is he always so quick!!??

Multi quote works THANKS!!!

[Michael Hardner]

On 11/9/2017 at 8:49 PM, Charles Anthony said:

Enter 2 carriage returns inside at the point where you want to split the quote.  In this case, I put my cursor somewhere betwixt your ? and capital I of your next sentence quote below. 

@August1991 I *finally* think I understand the problem you're complaining about (very generally) when you keep writing 'fix the forum software'.  It's about quoting.  I realized that I, too, have had frustrating experiences with quoting full quotes and not having enough room to type my response under the quoted text.

Then I found *THIS* post from Charles.  It works !  Simply quote the ENTIRE post, then hit return TWICE inside the quote box and it splits it up.  

At several years, this is likely the longest elapsed time I have spent on a software defect report.  That is all.

On 11/9/2017 at 8:49 PM, Charles Anthony said:

Click the "Quote" button associated with all of the posts you want quoted and they will all appear in your text window. 

 

[BubberMiley]

15 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

@August1991 I *finally* think I understand the problem you're complaining about (very generally) when you keep writing 'fix the forum software'.  It's about quoting.  I realized that I, too, have had frustrating experiences with quoting full quotes and not having enough room to type my response under the quoted text.

Then I found *THIS* post from Charles.  It works !  Simply quote the ENTIRE post, then hit return TWICE inside the quote box and it splits it up.  

At several years, this is likely the longest elapsed time I have spent on a software defect report.  That is all.

 

You people are on those old-timey typewriter computers. None of that works with a touch screen.

[Michael Hardner]

8 hours ago, BubberMiley said:

You people are on those old-timey typewriter computers. None of that works with a touch screen.

I had a touch screen and I gave it up.  My MacBook Air is a dream.

[Greg]

On 2018-03-23 at 5:01 AM, Michael Hardner said:

I had a touch screen and I gave it up.

The web would be a very different place if we all had to design for touch screens...

[Michael Hardner]

20 minutes ago, Greg said:

The web would be a very different place if we all had to design for touch screens...

I don't like reading some posts, let alone having to touch them....

[Michael Hardner]

On 3/22/2018 at 7:26 AM, Michael Hardner said:

@August1991 I *finally* think I understand the problem you're complaining about (very generally) when you keep writing 'fix the forum software'.  It's about quoting.  I realized that I, too, have had frustrating experiences with quoting full quotes and not having enough room to type my response under the quoted text.

Then I found *THIS* post from Charles.  It works !  Simply quote the ENTIRE post, then hit return TWICE inside the quote box and it splits it up.  

At several years, this is likely the longest elapsed time I have spent on a software defect report.  That is all.

 

@August1991  I am tagging you again as I see you complained about the software.  Since I started following this advice from Charles above, I have had fewer problems.

 

If I still encounter problems with quoting, I simply copy my posted text and refresh the page.  Takes less than a second and after the page is reloaded, the "carriage return" trick works every time.