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Quoting a line, not a whole post? How?

post #1 of 8
10/1/08 at 12:00pm
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How do you pick out a special bit of a post to quote in a response, with out the other paragraphs that need not be repeated?

I cant seem to get it right.

BTW,Cat site is the best.
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post #2 of 8
10/1/08 at 12:04pm
Quote the post as usual, and when the edit box opens for you to compose your message, edit out the parts you don't want. At that point, it's all just text.
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post #3 of 8
10/1/08 at 1:11pm
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Originally Posted by rapunzel47 View Post
Quote the post as usual it's all just text.
Testing testing.....


Thank you rapunzel...

P.S I just mauled her actual words,I have to be careful with this.
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post #4 of 8
10/1/08 at 1:18pm
If you mess up, you can always go back and start over from the beginning with quoting the post and try again!
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post #5 of 8
10/2/08 at 8:48pm
Or you can just copy & paste the part you want to quote.
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post #6 of 8
10/2/08 at 11:00pm
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Originally Posted by KittKatt View Post
Or you can just copy & paste the part you want to quote.
Yes, you can certainly do that, but then you don't get the attribution and the link to the original post. If that doesn't matter, then it's somewhat simpler that way.
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post #7 of 8
10/3/08 at 4:36pm
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Originally Posted by rapunzel47 View Post
Yes, you can certainly do that, but then you don't get the attribution and the link to the original post. If that doesn't matter, then it's somewhat simpler that way.

Yes, that's true. And sometimes it does matter.
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post #8 of 8
10/10/08 at 3:10am
Often times I want to add a quote somewhere in my post but don't want to leave my response to go find it.

If you click the little icon above the text box that is a word balloon, it will insert the tags for a quote. If you just type in or paste whatever you want in there (when you click it you don't have to move the cursor afterwards. it drops it right where you want to place the quoted text), it will work when you post.

As mentioned above it won't reeference the post, or the author, though you can add that manually too, but it's quick and dirty that way. Easy to do.
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