Or is it just me? Here’s what happens: I decide I want to quote somebody, but I don’t want all their post, but just the part that’s relevant to my response. So, after hitting ‘Quote’ and getting a reply window, I roll my mouse from the bottom “Quote” delimiter up to the part of the post that I want to include. Somehow, the left bracket gets inadvertently picked up in the cut area, and the vB coding of my reply is spoiled. It comes out like this:
[quote]
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
…
blah, blah, blah /QUOTE]
yadda, yadda, yadda…
I can avoid the problem if I remember to put some spaces in between that close-quote delimiter and the part of the post that I want to include, but if I don’t, I invariably screw up my vB coding.
This has been happening since the message board was upgraded a few months ago. Has anyone else been having this problem?
This is an annoying property of IE and yet another example of Microsoft software trying guess what people want rather than letting them do it themselves. The selection of that ‘[’ is automatic for some reason.
Even if you are very careful it will still do it. I took great care to put my cursor right between the ‘[’ and the ‘.’ and it selected the following -
“The selection of that ‘[’ is automatic for some reason.[/” (without the quotes)
FWIW, it has always done this to me–I have always had trouble getting just the quote C & P’ed without losing that bracket along the way.
However, Preview is extremely helpful in avoiding the results of “not noticing that you lost a bracket”. 
It never used to happen to me until the SDMB was changed, and I’ve always used IE.
It’s awlays been there, on all message boards, and is also in many other packages, such as Note pad and Word.
It drives me nuts.
I think the original intent was to end on a whole word, and somehow they decided that included the following punctuation. This only makes sense to me for ending quote marks.
If you want to pick up specific characters, so that you split a word for example, you can do it like this:
Position the cursor to the starting position, hold the Shift key down and use the right arrow/down arrow to select the text.