Hi all, before I get down to business, I've just gotta set Steve straight on this Reply business, it's driving me crackers
(oops, already there.
See the partial screenshot of Stan's Post above
Screenshot 1 - Reply Protocol
Steve what you are doing at the moment, is hitting the Reply button beside Like, which then prefaces Reply with the entire quote of the Post before yours. It's not necessary, and you don't see us doing it, and it just adds to Real Estate on the Servers.
What you
want to be doing is going down
below that post, to where (currently greyed out) your avatar sits at the left, click "Write your reply..." and go from there. This is as much for the benefit of new Members as for you, and I am not being critical, Mate
When you have completed your reply just press Post Reply and away she goes.
Mind you, in a thread as long as this one, or if you are referencing a Post from the page before, you might want to quote someone and address that issue. This can be done in two (or more) ways:
1. Highlight or block the text you want to address and you will see a small "Reply" come up. Click that, and that text will be inserted in your reply, along with who said it. So if I take a sentence or two from Stan's Post above, I can do this
And hey presto, it appears, and I can say
"Quite so, my good chap
".
On the Menu/Toolbar in your Reply Pane towards the right is a plus sign, and clicking it drops down options including Quote, so
2. If you are not worried about your readers knowing whom the quote came from, you can just block the relevant text and copy, hit the plus button and choose Quote. A couple of fields will appear, with the insertion point between them, just paste there, so
Before you know it, you'll be doing
annoying crap advanced, helpful stuff like me.
Wiz