How Do You Guys Get Multiple Quotes In One Post?

turbocruiser · 04-04-05, 08:07 PM

Hi, the title says it ... i cant seem to get multiple quotes to look like the main quote looks when you reply to a particular post while quoting it. Of course I can manually cut and paste from several posts but then those members' names are missing. So, how do you guys format a response where you take quotes from several above posts on that thread and then respond a little to little sections of those several other posts? Thanks, I appreciate any advice with this; its sorta stupid of me to make one response turn to three just cause I have to separately quote three separate posts.

Thanks again.

T Y L E R · 04-04-05, 08:27 PM

This never seemed intuitive to me either .. but then I'm a dunder-head when it comes to 'puterz .

TY - *listening closely*

LandCruiserPhil · 04-04-05, 08:37 PM

Click the quote button then cut and paste the quotes out of the reply box to a word doc and then cut and paste the doc back to the reply box. Might be a smarter way of doing it but it works for me.

woody · 04-04-05, 08:40 PM

[ QUOTE=LandCruiserPhil]Click the quote button then cut and paste the quotes out of the reply box to a word doc and then cut and paste the doc back to the reply box. Might be a smarter way of doing it but it works for me.[/QUOTE ]

[ quote=someotherguywhodidn'treallypost]gee...I dunno[/quote ]

piece of cake....takes a little cut/paste work, but nuthin to it....remove the spaces and mine would work fine.

turbocruiser · 04-05-05, 12:06 AM

Sorry for the stupidity, I still dont get it, are people who do this regularly really cutting and pasting back and forth to word??? Seems too much trouble? Besides by doing that with word, how do they maintain the formated things like the bolded box outline and the member name. Sorry, I'm not trying to be stupid here, guess its effortless for me!

Please elaborate an explanation for me or, in other words, s p e l l i t o u t p l e a s e!

NorCalDoug · 04-05-05, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by NorCalDoug

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Originally Posted by turbocruiser

Sorry for the stupidity, I still dont get it, are people who do this regularly really cutting and pasting back and forth to word??? Seems too much trouble? Besides by doing that with word, how do they maintain the formated things like the bolded box outline and the member name. Sorry, I'm not trying to be stupid here, guess its effortless for me!

Please elaborate an explanation for me or, in other words, s p e l l i t o u t p l e a s e!

You mean like this?
Naw...I'm not tellin...

Sorry dude...no way I'm giving up this secret

Well...you're a pretty good guy, so here's what I know...

Take a look below. I replaced the square brackets with squiggly brackets to prevent translation by the software. In real life you'd use "[" and "]" in place of "{" and "}"

What I typically do is highlight and cut/copy one quote -- in this case, I would've highlighted your post (shown below in magenta), copied it, then hit the quote button for my post (shown below in blue).

I then manually type in the "{QUOTE=turbocruiser}" in the beginning, paste the copied post, then add {/QUOTE} at the end of the pasted post.
There might be an easier way to do it, but this is what I do. It's a bit cumbersome, so I don't do it very often.

{QUOTE=NorCalDoug}
{QUOTE=turbocruiser}Sorry for the stupidity, I still dont get it, are people who do this regularly really cutting and pasting back and forth to word??? Seems too much trouble? Besides by doing that with word, how do they maintain the formated things like the bolded box outline and the member name. Sorry, I'm not trying to be stupid here, guess its effortless for me!

Please elaborate an explanation for me or, in other words, s p e l l i t o u t p l e a s e!{/QUOTE}
You mean like this?
Naw...I'm not tellin...

{/QUOTE}

The QUOTE=NORCAL is translated to read Originally posted by NORCAL by the software. The italics is done automatically.

The process I just describes works for nested quotes.
The process woody describes works for separate multiple, non-nested quotes.

turbocruiser · 04-05-05, 06:52 AM

Thanks Doug, that makes sense, I appreciate it. I thought it was more of an automated process but your method makes it easier than cutting and pasting with Word. Thanks again, I appreciate it.

Riley · 04-11-05, 11:15 PM

This is a good question and I've been wondering how others are doing this as well. I thought there was a better method than using word but guess not.

BTW... for long posts I use Word anyway. I've been burned on my WLAN one too many times to have reenter a post more than once. Plus my spelling is crap so word helps with that as well.

LandCruiserPhil · 04-12-05, 01:08 AM

Word also has spell check

T Y L E R · 04-12-05, 01:32 AM

I NEVER send a post off without first right-clickign and saving it to the clipboard. Been burned a number of times long ago as well .. now it's just a habit.

NorCalDoug · 04-30-05, 02:14 AM

I only get burned on the long drawn out posts. Never happense on the 8 word posts...

Romer · 04-30-05, 02:15 PM

I do qoute. Copy it. Back the browser to the thread and go to the other one I want to qoute and hit qoute. I then past the first qoute in the same thread. No need to use word or type anything else.

If you want three qoutes, you just copy the first two qoutes as one copy and do it again.

IndianDoc · 04-07-08, 12:43 AM

I am a little bit new(actually a lot new) on this site. I was trying to start a Thread and Typed it up in Word Spell checked and all. Copied and opened a new thread and could not get the sucker to take the paste. What GIVES?

NaterGator · 04-07-08, 01:17 AM

IndianDoc, you are the second user to report this problem. What browser are you using?

woody · 04-07-08, 05:28 AM

if you are typing up the post in MS Word or other 'power' editors, it's common for the copy-paste to not work since all the info won't pull over....do it in notepad and it should work fine.

Fast Eddy · 04-07-08, 03:09 PM

I don't know why you'd use word, ever, but especially not in this case. I use multiple tabs (or multiple browser windows if you're tab-challenged). Browsing multiple threads is easier, and you can open the same thread in multiple windows, begin a quoted response to several posts, copy them together into the final post, edit, post it and kill the other tabs.

Firefox has spell check built-in. Exploder sucks.