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Here is something I found you can do:
Go into the thread that you want to quote from and position to the part that you want to quote.
Look at the grey area at the left and the last thing under the user will be -- pound-sign colon number -- it looks like this #:3111526
Copy the number only.
Go to the address bar and after the .htm, append a pound-sign, the letters msg, and the number.
For instance you make what is in the address bar look like this:
[webmasterworld.com...]
which goes straight to the quote
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Select all, and copy the contents of the address bar.
Now, go back to the message you are composing and type the characters [ u r l =
Paste the url from the article
Type the characters ] . . . [ / u r l ]
Click on the Preview button.
You will see the three dots as a hyperlink.
Click on the three dots which takes you to the exact place in the article and you can select and copy a part of it that you want to show in your message.
Now you can do browser back to your message and paste the selection.
You can paste the selection in place of the three dots, or you can, perhaps, replace the three dots with the title of the post you are quoting.
Then, when the reader goes to see the article you are referring to, they won't have to read through all 23 pages of the thread to see the quote you were referring to.
Of course, you do not have to type the three dots that I specified; you can use something else instead, such as the title of the thread or the concept.
Click, and watch the address bar, you end up just at this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]
If you list the url then other folks can copy and paste that into their address bar, but it's not presently possible to have it be clickable. :(
In the url shown just above, looking closely where it goes, (with my mouse), it is positioned at the first post of the thread slightly down from where it would go without the #msgNNNNNN part.
