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Originally Posted by Carl Copeland
Sorry to disappoint you, Alexandra, but my method’s as low-tech as they get: click Quote and copy-paste the open- and close-quote codes to set off each segment. I don’t even know what the Multi-Quote button does!
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Oh, okay--ha. I'd thought of doing that but felt sure there was a slicker way. I'll ask Alex Pepple about this sometime.
As to the Multi-Quote button, it allows you to quote from multiple different comments in one reply. As a public service announcement, I'll pass on a synthesized and paraphrased version of the explanations I solicited from Alex on how to apply this function:
For the first method, click the “+ Multiquote” button for each of the comments you want to quote in your response. Each clicked “+” will change to a “-.” Next, click the regular “Quote” button of any of the selected quotes, which will open the reply window, which in turn will include quotes for all the selected comments. Trim each quote (or not) as necessary, and proceed through the rest as usual. However, this only works for quotes taken from the same page on the thread. To cite quotes from multiple pages on the thread, you can use this workaround:
(1) Carry out the multi-quoting for the first page only;
(2) Leave (1) alone, and open a new browser tab or window and there, go to the second page of the thread. Next carry out the multi-quoting just for the second page.
(3) Copy and paste from (2) to (1), and be sure to edit out any extraneous material. After this, you can discard (2) and continue with (1), which is what you'll end up submitting.
For the second method, add the code for each of the quoted comments as below:
[_QUOTE=COMMENTER'S USERNAME#1;COMMENT #1'S NUMBER]QUOTED TEXT #1 HERE![/_QUOTE]
[_QUOTE=COMMENTER'S USERNAME#2;COMMENT #2'S NUMBER]QUOTED TEXT #2 HERE![/_QUOTE]
where
- “USERNAME #1” is the first quoted comment (e.g.: A. Baez);
- “COMMENT #1'S NUMBER” is the system number for the comment (you can find it by mousing over the corresponding “quote” button and looking at the link information near the bottom of the page)
- “QUOTED TEXT #1” is the entire or snippet of COMMENT #1 that you're including in the quoted text #1
But be sure not to include the underscore before '_QUOTE' – I added this to prevent the PM system from interpreting it as a real quote instead of my instruction to you. This method can be used to cite quotes from multiple pages on the thread without necessitating any workaround.