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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Parrino who wrote (9449)	11/19/1997 9:04:00 AM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

>>I have a question on SI. What setting do I need to change to make the e-mails I'm responding to (or a portion of them) appear in my message? I was hoping that someone else would take that on, but I see not. First, they are typically referred to as Posts, or more politicaly correct, Messages and Responses. As to method, you highlight the text that you want to quote, in either the message window for viewing messages or in the message area above the respond window. Immediately after highlighting the subject text, copy it to the Windows buffer be selecting Edit/Copy (or, more simply, by typing Ctrl-C), then place the curser in the appropriate place inside the respond window, and select Edit/Paste (or type Ctrl-V). In most cases, you will have to "clean up" the pasted text, as it will have unwanted newlines in undesireable places such as this paragraph. You can simply go to the end of each line and press Delete; if that results in two words running together, you can simply type a Space. Typically, you would want to identify quoted text with some indicator: >>I use this >while others use this< <and yet others use this> <<you get the idea>> To get italics, you surround the text with < i>text text text< /i>, however, leave out the spaces inside each pair of angle backets - they are there only so you can see them here. The same works for bolding - the HTML tag is b instead of i. Lower case tags are required. Sorry if you already know Cut & Paste 101. I'll never forget how one of our most prolific news article posters (who I'll call Fido to protect his identity) to the series of USRX threads once asked us how we managed to type the articles in error-free. The silence was deafening. After we got over our shock at the thought of all those articles he typed manually, we explained C&P101. As I recall, his response was right out of 2010 - *It's all very clear to me now.*