Bonehead question

[IFjane]

I feel pretty inept here because I could not figure out how to do this myself & now I need to ask. How do you edit your posts so that you can include multiple quotes (from different people), and comment in-between? Same thing for attachments like photos. I can't figure out how to type between them. Clearly I'm a bike geek and not a computer geek!

[Zen]

Your first reply/quote is your keeper.

Go back to the next post you want to quote from and reply to that.
Cut and paste your reply into your keeper (by editing the keeper)

Only submit the keeper. Don't submit the other replies that you made cut and pastes from.

As for photos, you need an account like flickr or photobucket where you can keep photos you want to upload. They will enable your photos to have an [img] code and web address instead of posting them as an attachment.

[IFjane]

Ahhhhh.....thank you Zen!

[divingbiker]

I feel pretty inept here because I could not figure out how to do this myself & now I need to ask. How do you edit your posts so that you can include multiple quotes (from different people), and comment in-between? Same thing for attachments like photos. I can't figure out how to type between them. Clearly I'm a bike geek and not a computer geek!

I see Zen covered the multiple quote thing.

As far as putting text between pictures, if you don't have a photobucket account, you can upload all your pictures (they have to be pretty small), then click on the paper clip and all the pictures will be listed.



Click on the one you want to insert, then type some more text, then click on the paper clip and insert another one, etc. Or you can insert all of them at once and type your text in between the pictures. If you don't do the insert step it will just attach them to the end of your post.



I just tested it with these pictures of my sweet dogs, and it worked. That's the way I do it...I just muddle my way through.

[IFjane]

I'm good at muddling! And drooling over adorable furbabies....Thank you DB

[Tuckervill]

I feel pretty inept here because I could not figure out how to do this myself & now I need to ask. How do you edit your posts so that you can include multiple quotes (from different people), and comment in-between? Same thing for attachments like photos. I can't figure out how to type between them. Clearly I'm a bike geek and not a computer geek!

I do it by pressing Quote on your post. That brings up the new post window. Then I scroll down below the typing space and select and cut what I want to respond to. (all the posts on a particular page are listed in reverse order--you can see them if you scroll down.) Then I scroll back up to the edit window and paste it. Then I highlight it and click on the little yellow quote balloon above.

Go back to the next post you want to quote from and reply to that.
Cut and paste your reply into your keeper (by editing the keeper)

Anyways, that's how I do it.

Karen

[Eden]

I'm old fashioned, I just type in the html quote command bracket quote bracket /bracket quote bracket (bracket = [] square brackets, but if I type them in properly you won't see them!) to break up long passages I want to quote. If you want to quote *someone* you need to do a quote=their user name in the first quote command

[Starfish]

I do it by pressing Quote on your post. Anyways, that's how I do it. Karen

Testing, testing.

I see Zen covered the multiple quote thing.

More testing. Thanks for letting me practice!

[Starfish]

If you want to quote *someone* you need to do a quote=their user name in the first quote command

Testing one more time...want to get the user name in the second quote!

If you want to quote *someone* you need to do a quote=their user name in the first quote command

One more test...

If you want to quote *someone* you need to do a quote=their user name in the first quote command

Just practicing. Thanks, all!

[7rider]

Actually, IFJane - it's GREAT question, and something I've pondered a lot myself.

[QUOTE=zencentury;230060]Your first reply/quote is your keeper.

Go back to the next post you want to quote from and reply to that.
Cut and paste your reply into your keeper (by editing the keeper)

Only submit the keeper. Don't submit the other replies that you made cut and pastes from.
QUOTE]

Nope. Sorry. Not seeing it. Do you have multiple windows open simultaneously to the forum??? When I quote you here...the list of other replies at the bottom of ths screen don't have a reply option.

edit: Opps....see? I messed up trying to be fancy in my reply. I lost ZC's quote as a shaded stand-along block. Sigh.