How to do things like everyone else on PPRUNE

[K.Whyjelly]

I can e-mail and do PPRUNE and send responses to other peoples posts but I can't do that funky bit of highlighting a boxed article in blue and copying it to my reply as a starting point. Don't even know where to start a search cos I don't know the term for this facility. Any tips? Its probably soooooo simple when you know how. And while I'm at it how do you attach a youtube or similar media item to a post? I learn't a lot about attaching photos cos somebody went to the trouble of posting a step by step guide which I found invaluable. How do you send a youtube video or BBC newspage to photobucket to then attach to a post?? Or does it involve too much magic for a mere mortal like me...

Before I get flamed over using the search function I would like to re-iterate that I would gladly do a search if I knew the terminology to help me do one..........

[BDiONU]

Originally Posted by K.Whyjelly

I I can't do that funky bit of highlighting a boxed article in blue and copying it to my reply as a starting point. Don't even know where to start a search cos I don't know the term for this facility.

You mean a reply with quote. That function was removed from PPrune due to overuse and threads quoting several previous posts. There are ways around it (obviously) and now you have a start for your search.

And while I'm at it how do you attach a youtube or similar media item to a post? I learn't a lot about attaching photos cos somebody went to the trouble of posting a step by step guide which I found invaluable. How do you send a youtube video or BBC newspage to photobucket to then attach to a post?? Or does it involve too much magic for a mere mortal like me...

AFAIK you can't, unless you host the media on a server and then post the URL here. Or simply post the URL from the site already hosting the media. PPRune server couldn't support hosting vast media files.

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[BDiONU]

Or the simple way I do it. When you click on reply you'll note the URL comes up ending in "&noquote=1". Delete the 1 and replace with a 0, voila!

BD

[ZH875]

Originally Posted by BDiONU

Or the simple way I do it. When you click on reply you'll note the URL comes up ending in "&noquote=0". Delete the 0 and replace with a 1, voila!

BD

Except that it is remove the 1 and replace with a 0 (or just delete the 1 and do not replace it)