If this isn't appropriate, then I'm okay with deleting it.
When debating something said in another post, it is often helpful to copy and paste what was said into your post. However, what is with copying and pasting the last three pages of the thread?
My guess is that some here don't know how to cut and paste a statement and then use the quote HTML to mark it as a quote.
Here is how it is done:
1. Find the statement in the other post you wish to include in your reply. Highlight it by right clicking the mouse, holding the right click, and dragging it across the sentence, paragraph, or however much needs to be included.
2. Once everything is highlighted, hit CTRL and C simultaneously, which is old school keyboard for "Copy"
3. Now go to the window of your reply. Left click where you want the quote to be, and press CTRL and V simultaneously. That will put the statement (or "paste" it) into your reply
4. Now highlight that statement by right clicking the mouse button, dragging the pointer across the statement until it is al highlighted.
5. Now find the quote icon in the toolbar. It will look like the caption bubble you see in cartoons. Click on that, and there will be a quote in brackets at the beginning of what you want to quote, and a quote with a slash at the end. It won't appear as such when you post your reply, it will put it in a box that denotes it is a quote.
Feel free to improve or correct these instructions as needed. My guess is that the amount of server space taken up by unneeded and unnecessary quoting of the entire thread would be huge.
If a person doesn't know how to do something and no one shows them, then they will continue not doing it. As an IT (computer) guy, I run across things like this more than one might think. Last week, I showed an office worker how to save a Word Document to "My Documents"...she has had a computer on her desk since Windows '98...but no one showed her how or explained to her why. Same with another guy who had a computer for eight years on his desk and didn't no how to send an e-mail...he could reply to one that was sent, but nobody showed him how to originate one himself.
When debating something said in another post, it is often helpful to copy and paste what was said into your post. However, what is with copying and pasting the last three pages of the thread?
My guess is that some here don't know how to cut and paste a statement and then use the quote HTML to mark it as a quote.
Here is how it is done:
1. Find the statement in the other post you wish to include in your reply. Highlight it by right clicking the mouse, holding the right click, and dragging it across the sentence, paragraph, or however much needs to be included.
2. Once everything is highlighted, hit CTRL and C simultaneously, which is old school keyboard for "Copy"
3. Now go to the window of your reply. Left click where you want the quote to be, and press CTRL and V simultaneously. That will put the statement (or "paste" it) into your reply
4. Now highlight that statement by right clicking the mouse button, dragging the pointer across the statement until it is al highlighted.
5. Now find the quote icon in the toolbar. It will look like the caption bubble you see in cartoons. Click on that, and there will be a quote in brackets at the beginning of what you want to quote, and a quote with a slash at the end. It won't appear as such when you post your reply, it will put it in a box that denotes it is a quote.
Feel free to improve or correct these instructions as needed. My guess is that the amount of server space taken up by unneeded and unnecessary quoting of the entire thread would be huge.
If a person doesn't know how to do something and no one shows them, then they will continue not doing it. As an IT (computer) guy, I run across things like this more than one might think. Last week, I showed an office worker how to save a Word Document to "My Documents"...she has had a computer on her desk since Windows '98...but no one showed her how or explained to her why. Same with another guy who had a computer for eight years on his desk and didn't no how to send an e-mail...he could reply to one that was sent, but nobody showed him how to originate one himself.
