How do I use the quote icon?

[whatwasIthinking]

I am not a techy and can not figure out the quote thing. I know you probably don't need to be, but!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!

[Snoopy Laura]

It depends.  The posts have a quote button that you can click on and it will do it automatically for you.  Or,  you can type or copy and paste something you want quoted, highlight what you want quoted and then click on the quote icon.

I'm sure there's an easier way to explain...

[Larlabear]

Thanks Snoopy Laura ~ I couldn't figure out how to use only part of a quote.   

[whatwasIthinking]

I tried doing the first one and so far nothing!!!!!

[Snoopy Laura]

I am not a techy and can not figure out the quote thing. I know you probably don't need to be, but!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!

I tried doing the first one and so far nothing!!!!!

Huh, interesting.  I just did it with the above two quotes and it worked for me....

[whatwasIthinking]

If I click on it, the page flashes and nothing!

[whatwasIthinking]

If I click on it, the page flashes and nothing!

Now it's working!!!!! WEIRD!!!!! I have clicked that damn button so many times and this is the first!!!!!

[upyourcadillac]

Okay...

If you click on the Quote icon/word at the right of a post, it will put that entire post in quotes and put it in the quick post box at the bottom of the page.  You can then continue to type your response. The quote of the other message will show at the top of your message in a blue highlighted box.

If you hit the reply button, you can use the quote button to only quote a portion or several portions of a person's post.

Just highlight the sentence or phrase you want to quote (you can do this in their message before you hit reply or after you hit reply, by scrolling down below the reply box (what I'm typing in now) and you will see all the previous replies to the topic below there. You can highlight the passage you want to quote there.

Then, click on the little quote button above the smilies. It is in the second row and looks like a yellow "talk" balloon.

That enters the [] with the words quote and /quote. With your cursor between those two sets of brackets, right click your mouse and select "paste" (or do a CTRL V)

In any event, what you want to quote should end up between [1stquoteword] and [/2ndquote]

Does that make sense?

[notpinkpower]

I've been trying to figure out how to just quote a portion of the post and this helped me out.  Thanks