I’m ashamed to admit this, but I don’t know how to quote more than one person in a response. I certainly don’t want to have to post 3 responses by using ‘reply’ 3 different times.
Please show me how to do this.
you can do this bit right?
Now, using your amazing skills with cut and paste, change the above from “dalej42” to “poster #1” and paste the relevant text
[QU0TE=poster #1]yada, yada, yada.
[/QUOTE]
[QU0TE=poster #2]Wiity response.
[/QUOTE]
[QU0TE=poster #1]You can’t spell nyuk nyuk.
[/QUOTE]
etc.
You can even layer them. It’s just a bit of manual coding is all.
Alternatively, right-click on the ‘reply’ button for each post you want to quote and open the reply in a new window/tab - copy the preformatted quote out of the new reply box and paste it back into the main window/tab. Repeat as necessary.
Since we’re opening our hearts and admitting dark secrets, please can someone tell me how to do that cool link thingamajigee. In other words, instead of copying and pasting the entire link complete with http 'n all, you make it appear as one word, and part of a sentence.
Yeah, I know, I’m a technopeasant.
to insert a hyperlink: when you get to the point you want to insert it, click on the “insert hyperlink” button. It’s the little thingie that looks like a blue ball with an infinity symbol, fifth from the right in the line below font, color and size. See it? click, paste your text to display, click ok than paste your link. easy-peasy!
At the bottom left of every page is a little box that says:
Click on the “vB Code” link to see how to code quotes and links and such.
Like this?
Good job!
Thanks, zut, for even more information.
Wow - I’ve been doing this the hard way! (Copying and pasting from here everytime) :smack:
Thanks!
Tapioca Dextrin -
you can do this bit right?
Now, using your amazing skills with cut and paste, change the above from “dalej42” to “poster #1” and paste the relevant text
[QU0TE=poster #1]yada, yada, yada.
[/QUOTE]
[QU0TE=poster #2]Wiity response.
[/QUOTE]
[QU0TE=poster #1]You can’t spell nyuk nyuk.
[/QUOTE]
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I can’t for the life of me figure out what is wrong with the formatting above. Why don’t they turn into quote boxes?**
That’s because I have super secret formatting skills.
Also, I used the key next to the 9, not the one next to the i
Though, some boards have this code so out of curiosity: test post-
[noparse]
[/noparse]
Also another board I was on had a feature that added a little toggleable “+” button next to the quote button (looks like the quote button but smaller with a plus over the page) that would add it as a quote when you replied to the thread (if it wasn’t in the same thread it would add something under the reply box that said “you have posts selected not in this thread, would you like to add them to your post or discard them?” which you could disregard if you wanted to keep them but not do any of the above. Not sure if it’s part of teh default VB package, but if it is it could be a useful feature to activate, if for nothing but saving a tiny bit of time.
ETA: Noparse tags do not work!
:smack:
I definitely spent too much time on that. 
You can also do it by inserting a valid, empty tag pair inside the other tag…
[quote]blah[/quote]
The easiest way to quote multiple people is to open a new tab for each person using reply function. Select all the text in each reply window and paste them all into one reply. All the special tags are handled by the software instead of you having to do it.
vB does have a “quote multiple post” function; I’m guessing it’s either set to “off” by default or isn’t in 3.0.7.
Like this
[quo*[/í]te]blah[/quo*[/í]te]
(but using regular “i” instead of “í”)
Dude, that was quote is totally from the Witch Doctor, not the Chipmunks.
What, nipicks aren’t just for the other fora. This is the SDMB, man!
Well the version of Wooly Bully I’m familiar with is from the Chipmunks so :p.