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How To "Quote"

"Quoting" on the discussion board is the process of creating your message and including text that appeared in a previous message, usually as a way of indicating a direct "I'm replying specifically to these words" relationship between what you write and what someone else wrote previously.  There are three ways to make quoting work properly:

1.  When you wish to reply to an existing message, you can always just click on the "Quote" action button and the entire message will appear, already quoted, in a new text editing area where you can write your reply.  You'll notice that the quoted text will begin with a special marker that looks like [QUOTE=Unregistered] and will end with another special marker that looks like [/QUOTE] (I'm using bold here only for emphasis; the markers are not in bold in the message).  These special markers tell the system to put all the text that appears between these markers in the special "quote" format.  Think of them as bookends that begin and end the quoted text.  The first marker will always give the username of the person you are quoting, although if you were to delete the "=Unregistered" part, it would also work just fine.

2.  You can also manually insert the quoting markers at any time by highlighting the text you wish to quote and then clicking on the "Quote" icon at the top of your editor.  The "Quote" icon is usually on the far right, looks like a block of quoted text, and when you hover your mouse over it, says "Wrap [QUOTE] tags around selected text".

3.  Lastly, if you wish to quote an entire message but want to insert your own (unquoted) text into the middle of the message, you just need to terminate the previous quoted section by typing [/QUOTE] and then at the end of your text, where you want the quoting of the previous poster's words to begin again, type QUOTE=Unregistered] to begin another quoted section.

Remember:  A quoted section always begins and ends with a matched pair of [QUOTE=Unregistered] and [/QUOTE] markers, and these markers are just normal text, so you can enter and edit them yourself.

Also, remember that it's best to click on the "Preview Post" action button before you click on the "Submit Reply" action button, so you'll get a chance to see what your post will look like before you submit it.

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