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I'm for leaving things the way they are.

The UBB code is quite easy to use, the instructions can be accessed by clicking on the "UBB Code is ON" next to the box when you reply to a thread.

As Paul mentioned, the overuse of quoting on other BB's and newsgroups will drive you nuts.
I'll generally click right off of threads that have repeated quotes.


Also, for anybody that may not know, to copy from another spot.......

(1) You can highlight the text you want by holding down the left mouse button and dragging it over the text that you'd like to copy or save. Let up on mouse button when you want it to stop.

(2) If you hold down the "Ctrl" key, and at the same time press the "C" key, the highlighted text will copy to your computer.

(3) When you are back at the spot where you want the text to appear, again hold down the "Ctrl" key, but this time press the "V" key. The copied text will then paste into the reply.

(By the way, you can copy and paste most all documents from one to another this way, paste to your browser's address bar to avoid typing long web addresses, etc.)



[This message has been edited by electure (edited 11-06-2006).]

Hey, now that I'm a pro let's not go changing things!

I am glad to know how to do this. Thanks.

I'll cast my vote against putting the "Quote" button back up. Many (not any of those here though, I'm speaking of future members )will quote whole posts time after time when the quote is completely unnecessary.

With out the quick "Quote" being available, it seems as though quotes that are used are more specific excerpts picked out and have more relevance.

Roger

An even easier way- just copy and paste the text that you want to quote. I will put it in italics by using HTML italics tags- bracket i bracket at the beginning then bracket /i bracket at the end. Works for bold too- use b and /b always inclosed in brackets.

-Hal

Bump

Sorry. Couldn't resist!

Alan

Next thing you know, people will be writing in bold!

I'm honestly surprised how little enhanced code I see on this board. There are two in particular we see surprisingly little of that almost baffles me:

• Bullets
• IMG

Steve we have two entire forums dedicated to IMGs.

IMG's ?