I have seen people post text from other replies in a discussion. Basically, it shows a screenshot of their reply and under it is your own. How do you do this? Is it something that unlocks at a future level?
Thanks,
Ethan7988
Take a screenshot of their post, or when composing your message, press the Quote button and paste their text in.
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Niel wrote:
Take a screenshot of their post, or when composing your message, press the Quote button and paste their text in.
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that's two in a row, Neil. Thanks!
To quote their post in its entirety, simply press the 'quote' icon in the toolbar of the composing field: . The post will be pasted in automatically. Then type your answer below it.
To quote a part of their post before or during your reply, select and copy the text in question, paste it into the composing field, select it, and press the same icon.
Roger!!! I have been trying to figure this out forever! Let's see...
To quote a part of their post before or during your reply, select and copy the text in question, paste it into the composing field, select it, and press the same icon.
EUREKA!!! Thanks soooo very much, amigo!
here's one you may know already... ⌘ Command + S = [Reply] button (only while in the edit pane, of course)
Now, if you know how to set "Size" while in Simple Editor, ALL my problems will be solved 😉
best, as always
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⌘ Command + S
You need to use the Advanced Editor (link at right of the toolbar) then you have access to font size, style and colour.
Hi ÇÇÇ,
Roger!!! I have been trying to figure this out forever! Let's see...
This is a "me too" reply to Roger.
Thanks, Roger!
Using command s to send this reply...
Regards,
Ian.
G'Day Ian
When Charles Schultz made his "Don't worry about today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia" - I wonder if he thought about whether Aussies "worry"?
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Howdy Roger...
I said:
... if you know how to set "Size" while in Simple Editor, ALL my problems ...
😎 I knew about the Advanced Editor... I just wonder why that very cool feature would not be considered "Simple"? It's not like there is not enough space for it
Also C O L O R would be nice...
Again plenty of room - for that matter, there is "almost enough room for ALL the tools on a single row. I'll let you switch to the Advanced Editor to compare
They could get rid of a couple of tools, IMHO. I'll speak to both Editors and once you see my point, you will see that all would definitely fit on one row.
to show that I could actually do it when pasting an Arabic GoogleTranslate reply = pasted translated composition of the the character order to begin with and got worse when right justified
OR -- the Reply button could just invoke the Advanced Editor to begin with!!
best as always
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Going straight into Advance Editor would be nice (oddly, it does this when you edit a reply) but I imagine it's part of Apple's attempts to keep things simple for the inexperienced.
I use the HTML editor from time to time, principally in order to position an image to the right or left of the text (as here).
Roger Wilmut1 wrote:
Going straight into Advance Editor would be nice (oddly, it does this when you edit a reply) but I imagine it's part of Apple's attempts to keep things simple for the inexperienced.
I use the HTML editor from time to time, principally in order to position an image to the right or left of the text (as here).
Roger - the clever maestro
I am not sure that Apple's belief that they know best is warranted. if someone is not presented with twangers to punch, they will never learn by doing.
A "Preference" that could be changed like "Threaded" or "Flat" view of threads would be obscure enough for naive users to not even know existed! On this page would be perfect place
Very clever, but I am afraid I have yet to think of this forum's posts as a venue for advanced page layout 😉 Much less my HTML skills. (I was thankful for WYSIWYG web-authoring apps like Dreamweaver as my previous experience was dominated by use of PageMaker)
Have a good Sunday
best
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In my last reply, in advanced editor AND just now in Simple for this screenshot, the WYSIWYG is NOT what you get!
See that my reply does not wrap in the actual posted reply as it displays in the editor. That was my complaint about the Table Tool - very hard to manage in editor and absolutely horrid when posted.
buenos tardes
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This may be because I used a 'br=clear "right" ' tag at the end of the text. This should present any following text on a fresh line clear of the image (I'd forgotten that we don't get a signature any more - the intention was to keep that clear of the image). Basically the actual post is doing what it should, and the editor isn't coping. It's not an entirely reliable guide to text sizes either, which tend to come out different in the actual post.
I figured it was something along those lines...
RE: the Advanced Editor "Preference"
I think you may have countered your own opinion when you said the Simple Editor was for the inexperienced Target Audience... the HTML view is Decidedly NOT for the inexperienced 😉 I think all this was just cludged together. "Designed by a programmer" or "Programmed by a designer" we always say.
When one switches to or from the HTML view,
one gets this little ditty
<- Always use this editor link
Some link/tool "tiny and placed thus" might be a handy place for the preference. The capability seems built-in as it does the HTML/Normal view handily.
I won't hold my breath for this though... Apple knows best
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I do not think apple thought about it. These forums are thoughtless & don't follow Apple UI guidelines ( I suspect. ). I wrote software. When the software made it to the marketing folks, the marketing folks dreamed up all sorts of reasons for how & why the software work the way it did.
For some reason, the software code to create a discussion and reply to a discussion isn't the some. Any decent implementation would be the same.
It would be nice to give the user a choice. I know I proposed it long ago when Jive came out. Instead, Apple spends time negating auto password from working in Firefox.
Robert
Hi CCC,
ChitlinsCC wrote:
G'Day Ian
When Charles Schultz made his "Don't worry about today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia" - I wonder if he thought about whether Aussies "worry"?
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But it won't be tomorrow here in Australia until tomorrow 😕.
No worries,
Ian.
How do I copy text from other users' replies?
