Topic: How Do I: Quote someone elses text in my post?

[Geoff Reid]

Thanks for your reply Dave    Must confess have not yet got used to using the quote facility!

C of OT et al

Talkswindon has a really good, comprehensive help section which is unfortunately hidden behind an inconspicuous button 

for an explanation of what all these buttons do....

click this link http://www.talkswindon.org/index.php?action=help;page=post#quote


There are several ways to insert quotes into your posts, but probably the easiest one to learn first is to:

Highlight and copy the text you wish to copy into your post

copy it using ctrl+c 

paste it into your post using ctrl+v, highlight it again and click the 'quote' button...which is this one

what you will see in your post editor is:

Code: [Select]

   [quote]your quote inserted between these brackets[/quote]
which will look like this when you hit the 'post' button:

your quote inserted between these brackets