Quoting previous comments of others on PPRuNe
 

When contributing to threads on PPRuNe, it can be useful to insert a quote from a previous person. This sentence or paragraph is then reproduced by copying and pasting to one's own post. This action emphasises that it is someone else's words by placing in a blue tinged box.

I've managed to do this once in the distant past, but now it doesn't seem to work for me.

Could someone confirm the correct way of achieving this blue-boxed element please?.........Ta :sad:

There are three ways of doing it:

1. Copy the text you want to quote, and then put it between "quote tags".
You want something like [ quote="Keef" ] text being quoted [ /quote ] (but without the spaces I inserted around the [ ] )

which results in 2. Click on the "Reply" button. In the URL box at the top of your screen you will see something like
http://www.pprune.org/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=8644874&noquote=1

Remove the 1 at the end of that and when you post, the whole quoted post will appear. You will want to edit out the irrelevant bits.

3. ian16th's way, which I never got the hang of.

After you have copied and pasted the test you want to put in the blue box, highlight that text, and then click on the little 'text cloud' to the left of the # sign.

ian16th - Doesn't seem to work with IE11, I have to manually type [ quote ] and [ /quote], (without spaces also). :confused:

parabellum:

When the 'Reply to Thread' window opens, click on the 'A/A' button in the top right corner of the 'Message' panel. The background of that panel will change from cream to white, and the 'quote' button (like a speech balloon) will now work as nature intended - as will some of the other edit functions.

Eureka!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks GOF, indeed it works!

When you click on "reply" and the reply message box appears - if you just hold your mouse cursor over the little symbols at the top of the box, a description of what each one does, appears.

In the case of the square "speech balloon" symbol (to the left of the hash symbol), the message revealed when you hold the cursor over it, is "Wrap [ QUOTE ] tags around selected text".

I highlight and copy the required text to be quoted, open the reply message box, place the cursor on the speech balloon icon, and left click on the icon (which then gives me [ QUOTE ][ /QUOTE ] on the top left of the page).

The cursor is already in the centre of the quote tags when I do this - so I then just hit CTRL and V keys. This is easy enough to do with two fingers (or finger and thumb) of your left hand.
This pastes the copied text in between the quote tags, and I'm right to go.

If you require the quote to indicate the specific person it came from (for clarity), then just type a "=" sign, and the persons username, with quotation marks, in between the E and the "]" sign on the [ QUOTE ] tag.

Click on the reply button adjacent to the post you want to quote from. In the address bar delete the number 1 at the end of the web address. Click return. What you get is:

If you want to see the post itself in its original location then click on the http://www.pprune.org/images/buttons/viewpost.gif to the right of the quoted poster's name.

Or read the 'Frequently Asked Questions and Useful Information' sticky at the top of this section?

What he said :8 (Just practicing :O)