This is an experiment. The above quote is of Tree68 replying to me by quoting me. I made this test by selecting a part of his complete comment in his orginal post. So this is a partial selection of his post, not the entire text.
You can see that when selecting my quote together with his reply to it, it comes through combined so that it appears as one quote by Tree rather than a statement by me and a reply by Tree.
At first, I had this happen when I made an above post of the same quote. But I saw that it was setting up wrongly, so I quoted his entire text of the post as the quote, and they went back and deleted all but the part I wanted to keep. That correctly separated my comment from his reply. But you can see that there is still a formatting issue as Overmod pointed out.
It helps, IMO, to delete from the quote everything that is not precisely what you are responding to. Now, would some say, “Hey, you are taking things out of context?” Yeah, probably. But in most cases, a lot of the context is not needed.
You can enlarge the Reply box to full page. The icon with the four arrows. When you’re done writing, minimize it back to normal to post. At least I have to do that.
Not me by gosh! I just start typing with the ol’ brain on autopilot and then hit submit your post. Then, because I might be a little paranoid, I try to remember to check what I have posted. Then, I go back and fix it. It’s not the best system, but it’s a system.[X-)]
Mookie… I think it has to do with the order of the instructions in your post… you say you click on the button, then you say you highlight what you want to quote… that is backwards. First you click the mouse (and hold the mouse button down) at the beginning of what you want to quote in your reply, and move the mouse to the end of what you want to quote and then let up on the button (i.e.: you Hightlight it). Then you click the “Add Quote to your Post” button. This then copies just the text you highlighted to the reply box with the appropriate tags to make it show as a quoted text from a post by someone else.
Also there is an overload of the use of the word Highlight… for some that means marking a section of text to be in a color other than the normal black or to make it Bold or Italic or Underlined or any combination of “other than normal”. For others it means what I described above to select a section of text by a “click and drag” of the mouse.
I agree that I am not quoting 4-5 people in one posting. I am only doing a single quote. But for the ones of us that usually lose interest in a posting after a few comments, this works great.
I got it to work in your order, but not in Mookie’s order. Maybe she’s doing it left-handed?
Mookie- thanks for the tip about the magnifying glass feature. That’s going to save me a lot of time.
If I wanted to quote only part of a post, I would hit the add Quote to your Post button, and then go through and delete all the parts I didn’t want to quote. This confirms that I am a technology dinosaur.
I did EXACTLY as you instructed… I clicked Reply on your posting, then I highlighted the entire content of your posting… then I clicked the magnifying glass to see what I would get… Hmmm… NOTHING showed up in the preview! And there is nothing in this edit box as I type this.
I realize I am nitpicking, but there are those that use the internet that do not have any idea how to do this stuff beyond the very basics. If you leave out some seeming obvious (to most of us) step, then they get very confused. They follow the instructions to the letter and it wor’t work as stated. That silly little step is not so silly and not at all little when you don’t know it needs to be done.
I did exactly what I do each time. I captured your whole quote. I agree, I am very puter illiterate, but I have been able to reply to each example w/o holding my tongue a certain way, going into a toolbox somewhere on the forum, deleting or reshaping pages. Maybe - just maybe - simple works best?
There are two ways that people usually quote - I’ll simply summarize.
First one clicks on the reply button. That opens up the window for a reply.
If someone is doing a completely separate post without quoting, they just type their reply in the composition window and hit submit.
If they are going to quote the entire post that they are replying to, they simply click on “Add Quote to your Post” and the entire post being replied to will be shown as a quote. Add or subtract at will (only need to click on that once).
If there is only one sentence, section, or even phrase one wants to quote, then open the reply composition box, highlight the text wanted in the quote (as has been noted, just drag the cursor over said text), then click on “Add Quote to your Reply” and only the highlighted text will show up as a quote.
This can be done multiple times, as has been noted.
I rarely use nested quotes. If I did, I would expect to see multiple quote tags, or I’d add them, carefully matching beginning and end tags. On the rare occasion I want to quote several people in the same post, I’ll use the “long form” quote tag, which includes the original poster’s name.
I wonder if some of the problems people are having might stem from the particular devices they’re using. I use a desktop with W10 and Edge, and don’t seem to have any serious problems, but maybe if you’re using a tablet or smart phone, the small screen may make it hard to see the whole picture.