Hi Tiger Feet,
There's lots of useful info like this in the Frequently Asked Questions (or FAQ) pages. Look for "Help" on the menu at the top (next to User CP) and then click on FAQ.
If I want to insert a quote which links to another post, like this:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiger Feet  I thought she attended one of your workshops, but hasn't ever asked you to dance again? |
then what I do is this:
- Go to the post you want to link to.
- press the Quote button
- This will bring you to the "reply to thread" box - but in the wrong thread. The text will start with "[quote]" and end with "[/quote]"
- Select all the text from the Reply to box and hit Ctrl-C to Copy
- Without saving any changes to this post, press your browser's back button and go back to where you were
- Go to the thread you want to reply to, and press the "Post Reply" button, or the Quote button if you want to quote a post on this thread
- use Ctrl-V to paste. This will start with something like [quote=Tiger Feet;459384] - the number (459384 in this case) is the ID of the post it's linking to.
- Add your own text and make the post as normal.
However a quicker way seems to be this:
- On the post you want to link to, press the "multiquote" button. This is the button to the right of the "Quote" button, with a "99" quote and a + sign
- Now go to the thread/post you want to reply to, and press the "Post Reply" or Quote" button.
- At the bottom of the grey box containing the mesage and smilies, there should be some text saying somthing like"You have selected 1 post that is not part of this thread. Quote this post as well, or deselect this post. "
- Select the "Quote this post as well" option to include the quote from the other thread.
Note that using the "multi-quote" button only once seems to work in this case, but the "Quote" button doesn't do this.
