Multi-quoting a single post?

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If I want to quote (part of) a message to clarify the context of my response, I quote the foregoing message (and delete what is not relevant from the quote). If I want to quote from multiple messages in one single reply, I use the multiquote feature. I’m telling you nothing new here.

Now what if I want to use multiple quotes from a single message, and respond to each of them separately but in a single post? What I usually do is click the Quote button, copy the whole quote in the text entry field, and paste it a couple of times. Then I delete from each text part between the “quote” codes what I don’t need in there. This is somewhat clumsy although the end result looks good.

Is there a better way to accomplish this effect? It would already help if “multiquote” works on a single post but it doesn’t seem to do that. Multiple quotes from a single post are used regularly by several posters, so I wondered if someone has found a more user-friendly way…

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Just to clarify, this is what I want to end up with:

Response 1.

Response 2.

Response 3.

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“I’m telling you nothing new here.”

Oh but you are telling me something new.

I had no idea that there was a Multi-Quote option (old guy… very little understanding of computors in general)

I can’t help you with your request but just thought I would say thanks for pointing out this feature. :slight_smile:

Now to see if I can put it to use sometime.

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Another demonstration of the desired effect :slight_smile:

You could have used the (regular) quote feature to quote me :slight_smile:

Glad to have been of help.

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That just goes to show you how challenged I am with basic computor functions :smiley:

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There is sort of a way to do it better then that.
You can hit the quote button then remove the quote text tags around the quote. You can type in your message wherever in the text. The select one of the chunks of text that you need to be in quotes and hit the little word balloon icon that is located between the picture icon and pound symbol icon. This method works but then the quotes will not have the original posters name in it.

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OKIC what UR doing there. Cool, thx. You’re not only missing the original poster’s name that way though, but also the little link to the original post. Still a :sunglasses: trick. To remedy this, a hybrid can be used (if one wants to make many separate quotes from one post): have the poster’s name above the first quote, and then all the other quotes created ‘your’ way.

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Rightly or wrongly, I’ve been doing it that way; cite the author and post in the first snip and just “Quote:” the others. And being of the old school, typing the simple square-bracketed quote and slash-quote tags is quicker for me than highlighting the text and clicking.

But I hadn’t noticed the Multi-Quote feature either. I’ll have to try that.

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Interesting, I’d never noticed that little link before :stuck_out_tongue:

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It seems we could use a “tips and tricks” thread about forum usage. I think I’ll create one.

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Absolutely, there are a lot of little hidden bits of functionality that many of us must be unaware of.