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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 06:33 PM
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when you guys take quotes that someone else posted,and re-post them they all have the darkened box around them with the original poster.HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT??Thanks!
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when you guys take quotes that someone else posted,and re-post them they all have the darkened box around them with the original poster.HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT??Thanks!


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when you guys take quotes that someone else posted,and re-post them they all have the darkened box around them with the original poster.HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT??Thanks!
Press the quote button on the right of the post you want to quote
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when you guys take quotes that someone else posted,and re-post them they all have the darkened box around them with the original poster.HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT??Thanks!
Click on the "QUOTE" icon at the lower right corner.
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when you guys take quotes that someone else posted,and re-post them they all have the darkened box around them with the original poster.HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT??Thanks!
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Originally Posted by jesse12804
when you guys take quotes that someone else posted,and re-post them they all have the darkened box around them with the original poster.HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT??Thanks!
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If you don't want to quote the whole thing, Just put QUOTE in [] to start and /QUOTE in [] to stop.
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by jesse12804
I can quote text with the best of them... Thanks!
Or, once you click "quote" you can modify what the person said that you are quoting. Of course, you really don't want to change the impact of what they said...
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Originally Posted by jesse12804
when you guys take quotes that someone else posted,and re-post them they all have the darkened box around them with the original poster.HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO THAT??Thanks!
You mean like this
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:32 PM
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Of course, the mods will probably tell you that this kind of post should be posted in the help section.
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Old Feb 3, 2006 | 10:47 PM
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Also,.....too many quote the entire post, just to say something like . Don't use it unless you need to.
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Originally Posted by TommyV
Also,.....too many quote the entire post, just to say something like . Don't use it unless you need to.
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Originally Posted by TommyV
Also,.....too many quote the entire post, just to say something like . Don't use it unless you need to.
Or, when the original poster posts 4-5 pictures of their car, you can cut out the IMG portions of the quote. Then, we won't have to keep searching for a line or two of text in a truckload of same pictures over, and over, and over...
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Is this going to go longer than the Steve Miller Post ???
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