How do you quote two people?

[MACDRIVE]

Originally Posted by [Person A]

my comments here.

Originally Posted by [Person B]

my comments here.


How do I do this? Everytime I try to do it, the first quote gets voided out by the second quote. I know it can be done however, because I see MR folks who are smarter than me doing it.

 

[mad jew]

Just follow our guide. There are a few different ways of doing it but I usually open the replies in multiple tabs and then copy/paste them back to one reply box. Just make sure you check your tags to ensure they're opened and closed properly.

 

[MACDRIVE]

Responding to multiple quotes at the same time:

1) Find the first post you want to comment on, and click the Quote button on the bottom right on the post.

2) Without writing anything, copy the text in the text field of the reply window.

3) Go back to the thread and locate the second post you want to comment on.

4) Again, click the Quote button on that post.

5) Paste the first quote inside the text field of the new reply window, either at the top or at the bottom.

6) Write your responses to the quotes and post the message by clicking Save.

 

[mad jew]

Are you using Safari? I just go through the thread and hold COMMAND down as I click Quote to all the posts I want to quote. I then copy the contents of each of the reply boxes in each tab and paste them all into one reply box. Under each quotation, I write my comment.

Which part are you stuck at?

 

[thomasp]

Here, use this code:


[QUOTE=Person 1]
I am person 1
[/QUOTE]

Hi person 1

[QUOTE=Person 2]
I am not person 1
[/QUOTE]

I'm glad about that



To give:

I am person 1

Hi person 1

I am not person 1

I'm glad about that

 

[yg17]

You can also beg the MR gods to upgrade to vBulletin 3.6 because it allows you to quote multiple posts.

 

[peter32892]

ahh I was wondering this to thank you =)

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Are you using Safari? I just go through the thread and hold COMMAND down as I click Quote to all the posts I want to quote. I then copy the contents of each of the reply boxes in each tab and paste them all into one reply box. Under each quotation, I write my comment.

Yepp... that's what I do, too, most of the time...

Other times I just copy the text in the post(s) I want to quote and paste it into my answer in a quote tag,

, then just add the name of the "quotee(s)" manually or cutting and pasting.

 

[MACDRIVE]

Are you using Safari?

Yes

I just go through the thread and hold COMMAND down as I click Quote to all the posts I want to quote. I then copy the contents of each of the reply boxes in each tab and paste them all into one reply box. Under each quotation, I write my comment.

Huh?

Which part are you stuck at?

All of them.


The main reason I started this thread is for the sake of the moderators. They always have to go back and combine my posts because I've been making a separate post for each quote. Maybe I'm just too stupid for this.

 

[thomasp]

Have a look at my earlier post: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/2852342/ - that is all the vBulletin code you need to quote multiple people.

Just use
[quote=USERNAME OF POSTER HERE]
PASTE THEIR POST HERE!
[/quote]

And repeat that for each person.


Have a go below

 

[mad jew]

Just to elaborate, holding COMMAND in Safari as I click on a link (including the Quote button) opens the link (reply box) in a new tab.

 

[MACDRIVE]

Have a look at my earlier post: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/2852342/ - that is all the vBulletin code you need to quote multiple people.

Just use


And repeat that for each person.


Have a go below

Test

Just to elaborate, holding COMMAND in Safari as I click on a link (including the Quote button) opens the link (reply box) in a new tab.

Test

 

[mad jew]

Nice work mate. Which method did you use?

 

[MACDRIVE]

I used your method MJ, but for some strange reason, the reply box opens up with small print when I click Quote with the command key held down as opposed to clicking Quote by itself.

 

[mad jew]

How bizarre.

Are you maybe holding the MINUS key down at the same time?

 

[MACDRIVE]

Ok I just found out that if I click Quote with the command key held down very quickly, then the print will stay the same size.

 

[RedTomato]

Nested goodness is also possible.

Hope I don't break the forum. Mods, feel free to edit if this blows your stack:

Ok I

just found

out that

if I

click

Quote

with

the

command

key

held

down

very

quickly,

then

the

print

will

stay

the

same

size

 

[irmongoose]

My eyes! My eyes!



irmongoose

 

[MACDRIVE]

Thank you for all your help mad jew.

If I was a girl I would ...

 

[Doctor Q]

Nested goodness is also possible.

Hope I don't break the forum. Mods, feel free to edit if this blows your stack:

You won't get a complaint from me. I think it was a great post!

 

[mad jew]

Thank you for all your help mad jew.

If I was a girl I would ...

No worries mate. BTW, I'm loving all your smileys.