Yes I can't believe I have to ask either.
 

OK I haven't figured out how to quote others posts yet. Can someone help me out here?

Thanks

I haven't found a way to direct quote.....I just cut and paste the bits I want to quote into the reply box.Then highlight it and click on the 'wrap (QUOTE) tags around selected text' in the symbols above....looks like a voice bubble...at the end of the line.

Dear incredibly thick McThick of the Clan Thick-type person.

(1) Highlight the text you would like to quote and hit ctrl-C

(2) Hit the "reply" button"

(3) Click on the "quote bubble" icon, which is usually the rightmost on the second line of icons. If you leave the mouse there long enough, the text popup will say "Wrap [quote] tags around the selected text". And, at this point, I feel my entire explanation unravels thanks to the the wonders of vBulletin.

(4) Paste the text you copied between the [-quote] and [-/quote] tags.

Voila.

But don't add "-" within the brackets.

On a Mac, I highlight the words I want to quote, whether it's a sentence or the entire post, then hit "Apple + C" (the key with the Apple symbol + the C key). Then when I open the "reply to thread" box and have a cursor blinking, I hit "Apple + V" and the highlighted words reappear there. I then add the quote marks manually.

Probably a kludge way of doing it, but what do I know?

It should be very obvious, but it doesn't seem to work that way because of the bazillion icons one is presented with when replying to a posting, there's no understanding of hierarchy. You need to be looking at the end of the second row of icons. This is the "quote" button. You need to understand that the buttons don't do anything magical, they simply insert text surrounded by square brackets. Then, you need to have some text in your copy buffer to insert between the sets of brackets. If you can7t work out how to use the icons, you can simply type what you want to say. For example:

It must be the beans, he thought.

Call100 has it exactly right: Call100 does exactly the right steps to quote, but doesn't recognise that those steps are correct, because of the way vBulletin presents the option.

stepwilk, do the Apple+C bit, then in the reply window click the quote button, put the cursor in between the (QUOTE)s and do the apple+V.

You know you can also right-click on an apple mouse?

There is another way....

.. the way I use.

I just hit "reply" - no Ctrl or Mac or funny keypresses.

Up in the URL box at the top of Firefox appears a long string starting with pprune and ending with &noquote=1

I change the 1 to 0, press enter, and hey presto the whole message appears as a quote, ready to reply to it and with some other clever stuff that I don't understand pointing at the post in question.

I edit the quoted bit to show what I want to answer, enter my answer, and job done. Like this, in fact.

and then add letters to make up the min length:ugh::ugh::ugh:

I do recognise that they are the correct steps.(for this forum)....This however is the only forum I frequent that doesn't have quote option next to or, in place of, the reply option which makes things a lot easier...
However I think that this thread could now possibly be confusing the OP.

OK that'll do.

Thanks, but really, I can't be that thick if a debate on how to quote is actually as long as this one.

Sorry, there should have been a smiley in there. Quoting seems to a rite of passage around here. You see no way of doing it, then when you learn how, it seems so obvious. I think it's because the quote icon doesn't seem to be in the most logical place - below font selection and to the right of the scary-looking link icons. On the other hand, there's two different ways of getting smilies inserted. Then there's the mysterious "switch editor mode" icon, which on one machine makes the text wobble a bit, and on another machine makes all the icons vanish.

No problems, I don't take offence easily:ok:

I'm getting it:}

You don't need to type in 0 - just delete the 1 and hit return.

This thread just keeps on giving haha.:D

A pome.

(Dibble&Grubb)

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Too much Blackadder methinks, too little compassion and understanding.

Get a life and wash yo mouth out. You must be an absolute hoot to drink with. Home life OK?

Yup, still beating various things.

Like the Wife?????:}