# Test thread for nested quotes

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**Created:** [November 17, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-for-nested-quotes/704872 "2014-11-17T18:16:26Z")\
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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Using the quote box by hand I never figured out how to create that cite-number-jump back thingie, which would probably be above and beyond to create by hand anyway. So I just cite the post number to make things clearer for a complicated non-linear thread.

If you are able to use the Multi-Quote thingy as suggested by **simster** and **Heffalump and Roo** in Posts #8 and 12, that’s probably easiest. Or, go to each post that you want to quote, one at a time, and quote them. Either way, you have to then do some cutting-and-pasting to re-arrange the pieces and assemble all the parts into one multi-level quote. Sounds like Multi-Quote is the easier way, except for me because it doesn’t work in my browser.

Okay, I see what you’re missing: You’re thinking of cutting-and-pasting from the posts you want to quote and manually adding quote tags around them. That doesn’t get you the magic link-back numbers. What you need to do is:  
[ul][li] Go to each post that you want to quote.[/li][li] One post at a time (or all at once if Multi-Quote works for you), _click on the Quote button in that post._[/li][li] This opens the edit window, with the proper quote tags already there, _including_ that magic link-back number.[/li][li] Copy the entire quote from this edit window, including the quote tags, and paste into the message that you are assembling.[/li][li] You need to get the nested pieces all in the right order, as I showed in the detailed example in Post #11. My example doesn’t show the magic link-back numbers, but you need to make sure you keep them when you do your cutting-and-pasting.[/li][/ul]

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