Okay, Linda, Pretty please don't think I was being condescending. I just truly enjoy helping. Additionally, I figure if you are out there wondering and saying so *there are probably 10 other posters who are wondering, and NOT saying so. So, if you'll forgive me, I've worked up a a little "multiquote tutorial," even if you find it of no use whatsoever, chances are good someone else will. Besides which, I'm going to save this, for future use when people ask. Thank you!
This is an image of the lower right hand corner of a post. You are probably familiar with clicking the "quote" button on the left end, and the "thanks" button on the right end. If you click the multiquote button, which is second from the left, and I'm pointing to it with a big green arrow, it will turn orange
when it turns orange, it looks like this:
If you log into your favorite forum and find the last post you read before you signed off, and you begin reading down the thread, you can click on the multiquote button for all the posts you'd like to quote, you just keep scrolling down, reading, and as you read, it's like a bookmark for each post you want to quote, and the button turns orange, and you keep reading, so you can get back to it later. After you've clicked on several multiquote buttons in a row, it will look like this:
So, let's say you've read 3 new pages of posts since you last signed in, and you've finally gotten to the end of the thread, and you're ready to reply. Well, you click on "post reply." It shows up at the end of the thread and looks like this button where the big green arrow is once again pointing:
After you click on it, all the quotes for which you've clicked the multiquote button, will show up in your reply box. Then you can scroll up and down the box and reply to each one in turn. That would look a bit like this:
I genuinely hope that has helped someone and that no one is irked with me for trying to help, even though Linda asked me not to :iamashamed:
Thank you. I wondered how people did that!