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"Wild Bad Bob" · Post by **"Wild Bad Bob"** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:37 am

rbursek wrote:JPG,
I just clicked on the "quote" box, I did not eliminate/deleted anything to my limited knowledge.

a test to do deductive reasoning

skou · Post by **skou** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:39 am

rbursek wrote:
skou wrote: A test, still dont understand about the *

The stuff inside the brackets is a function. It tells the forum software what to do. By throwing something in there, it changes it from a function to just text.

There are numerous functions that this forum software uses, and they are listed at the top of a response (reply to thread) page.

Fonts.[FONT*="Comic Sans MS"][/FONT*] My mother's favorite font.
Sizes[SIZE%="7"][/SIZE%] HI
Colors[COLOR@="Blue"][/COLOR$] Beeg
And, a bunch more.
If you notice, I corrupted the function in the first example, and used it in the second example. I also used different symbols to corrupt them.

steve

"Wild Bad Bob" · Post by **"Wild Bad Bob"** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:42 am

Skuo,
I dont feel put down. On the last one that I did that said a test, I copied/highlighted the quoted verbiage then hit the quote tag in the lower right corner. Is that correct?

skou · Post by **skou** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:44 am

rbursek wrote:Skuo,
I dont feel put down. On the last one that I did that said a test, I copied/highlighted the quoted verbiage then hit the quote tag in the lower right corner. Is that correct?

You don't even need to go that far. Just hit the quote button, and you should be OK. That is what I just did.

steve

"Wild Bad Bob" · Post by **"Wild Bad Bob"** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:45 am

When picking a line to quote, I dont put it in brackets or anything.

"Wild Bad Bob" · Post by **"Wild Bad Bob"** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:46 am

Okay got that, but what if you only want to quote a sentence in a paraghraph? Just high light that sentence then hit the quote tag?

skou · Post by **skou** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:48 am

rbursek wrote:Okay got that, but what if you only want to quote a sentence in a paraghraph? Just high light that sentence then hit the quote tag?

I just hit the quote button, and delete what I don't want. (Highlight, and hit delete.)

skou · Post by **skou** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:50 am

rbursek wrote:Okay got that, but what if you only want to quote a sentence in a paraghraph?

That is what I just did here. Highlighted and deleted your second sentence.

steve

skou · Post by **skou** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:51 am

Guys, sorry for the hijack, but I think I'm helping someone (and, maybe a few others) out.

Bob, maybe we should have started another thread.

steve

"Wild Bad Bob" · Post by **"Wild Bad Bob"** » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:58 am

All right, got it all, and figured out the confusion!!!! First when I sometimes wanted to "quote" something, just a sentence or 2 in a paragraph I just copied and pasted it, I was not hitting the quote tag and deleting what I did not want to quote.
2nd, Most of the time I have a problem trying to figure out JPGs form of explaining something!!!!!!!!. No slight to him, I have a problem with a lot of his verbiage and abbreviations.
Thanks for your patients, and as a mentor used to say, " if you explained it 3 times and they still did not get it, you got to explain it a different way so they can get it".