They say there is no such thing as a stupid question, so guess it's just me. I can't seem to figure out how to quote just part of someones post. When I highlight the sentence I want and click "Quote" I always get the entire post. Thanks for the help.

I am sure there is a short cut but the way I do it is:

Open another browser window and cut and paste from one to the other that way you can use several posts in the same reply. Be sure and copy the portion with the member's name, you are quoting each time you you cut and paste; that way when you click on it, it will refer to the original post you are referencing.

Another way is to use [ ] around the word "quote" at the beginning and use "/quote" at the end it will look like this:

hope that helps,

Brad

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Click on the Quote button, then in your post, just delete the unwanted text. That way, you also get the name of the person whom you are quoting.

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Lou

And if one wishes to appear as mildly mad - click the 'multi off/on' button in multiple posts - and then click 'quote' as well on the last post to get involved in point by point refutation - often (but I should perhaps add, not exclusively, as it has it's legitimate role) a tactic of the terminally attacked/beaten/wrong/upset

Eg:
How dare you!
I never said that!
You're misrepresenting me!

Etc.

~A

I always wondered how that feature worked.
the beauty of my style of thread quoting allows you to go to a persons previous post in another thread and quote that as well

eg:

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Actually Jugs you can do that as well. Simply click quote, then exit back to the main page, find the thread you wish to post in and click post reply. Just under the window it will tell you that "you quoted a post that is not part of the thread, would you like to quote that post?"

Easy as pie right?

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"War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others." - Karl von Clausewitz

is that not the same thing as I describe here? or are my directions alll jacked up?

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My cup runnith over-thank you all. I'm an old pipefitter-- we go through a five year apprenticeship to learn how to do things, than spend the rest of our lives learning how to do it the easy way. Think it should work with this :-)

Nope. They are the same thing essentially. Just thought the water wasn't muddy enough

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"Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Powder is scarce and must not be wasted. Fire low! You are all marksmen and could kill a squirrel at a hundred yards. Reserve your fire and the enemy will all be destroyed! - Israel Putnam, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775
"War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others." - Karl von Clausewitz

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Best Regards,
JW

You just gave me a seizure

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The Gieco caveman commercials come to mind right about now....

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lies the blackend bones of countless millions
who, at the dawn of victory sat down to rest,
and resting died....
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Just trying my new skills... great quote .It cracked me up, i know what u mean

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