Swinging Soliloquy

[Erthona]

Leah, you might want to try either "Quick Reply" which gives you a blank box but gives you nothing in the way of changing the typography and inserting things, or New Reply which also gives you a blank box but does give you the usual tools. It kind of messes up the thread if you use the "reply button" that is at the bottom of the last message and will copy that whole message into your reply. If there is something specific you wish to have to reply to I suggest copy and past enclosed by quotation marks. Tom also needs to quit doing it but he is already habitually caught in his ways and refuses to change. I am hoping to catch you before it becomes a habit. If you wish to do more with your "quote" from quick reply, when you hit the "preview post" it gives you access to all the usual tools. One of them is a "quote box." By highlighting whatever text you wish (within your reply) to be surrounded by a quote box, and then choosing the quote icon, it will change it into the familiar looking box that you see when you hit the reply with in someone else reply. Such as:

Leah said: "I don't have flat feet or a bald head!" 

The quote icon is third from the right in the tools line.

This helps to keep the thread readable. If you look back through the thread you might notice it is becoming difficult deciding  who said what, unless they "bold" it to make it stand out, but this even fails after a while as the entire message keeps getting pasted in each message.

Dale