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ccooney
03-21-2002, 10:39 AM
OK.
I have figured out how to change the color of my text and the size or font of my text when I post, and I can even do bold, italic, or underlined. But I've noticed that a lot of you can do several of those functions at once. I haven't been able to figure this out. I don't usually find myself so technologically clueless. Can someone help?

Also I've noticed that some of you have really funky animated avatars. How on earth do you do that? It's soooo cool!
tanastaplo
03-21-2002, 10:44 AM
I am by NO MEANS BB literate, but here is a link that I found helpful with the avatar problem. The thread has links to sites with some animated avatars. Good luck!

http://www.cookinglight.com/vbb/showthread.php?threadid=22035
Ralph
03-21-2002, 10:54 AM
To do them all at once, change the "vB Code" which is right above where you type Your Reply from "Normal Mode" to "Enhanced Mode." If they're set to prompt, accept the cookie. Then click on whatever icon(s) you want to use, then click the 'X' for Close Current Tag or Close All Tags.
ccooney
03-21-2002, 11:01 AM
THANKS, RALPH! YOU'RE GREAT!
Julie A
03-21-2002, 11:25 AM
Thanks Ralph...I was always afraid to ask...this is Wonderful!
JennieL
03-21-2002, 12:54 PM
testing....
dcornelius
03-21-2002, 01:03 PM
I love the CLBB! Just playing cause I have always wanted to do this to and couldn't figure it out.:D
Carolina68
03-21-2002, 01:16 PM
Thanks! I didn't know this either!
Peggy C.
03-21-2002, 01:18 PM
Hope I did that right!
Peggy C.
03-21-2002, 01:19 PM
Yippeee
mmtibbs
03-21-2002, 01:33 PM
[B]This is totally cool.

[SIZE=3][I]I had no idea it was so easy



[FONT=arial]Thank you for the help!!
mmtibbs
03-21-2002, 01:34 PM
hahahaha--
I STILL messed it up!!!--I'll go back and practice in the preview mode!!
albus87
03-21-2002, 01:50 PM
this is very cool :p
albus87
03-21-2002, 01:51 PM
wow. I actually did it - I'd never tried to anything but normal text before! :)
AnnaC
03-21-2002, 02:03 PM
I always wondered how to do this but was too embarrassed to ask!!
Carolina68
03-21-2002, 02:04 PM
MMTibbs,
Don't forget to CLOSE the tags at the end. I forgot and just happened to preview the message before posting....I went back and closed the tags and Ta Da
VictoriaL
03-21-2002, 02:19 PM
I am so new to this... I don't even know what a "cookie" is, much less an "antimated avatar". Overwhelmed. Like in calculus class in college. Think I'll go bake something (recipe books and ovens I can handle). Hey, I think I might have figured out how to do color. Let's try "font". I don't feel so bad after all. Maybe there's hope!
helene
03-21-2002, 02:48 PM
Thanks everyone, we learn something new every day
Tiger
03-21-2002, 03:04 PM
Ok, how about another question?
How do you quote someone without quoting their entire post?
Molli526
03-21-2002, 03:41 PM
One of 2 ways..

Either hit "quote" at the bottom of someone's response, and then edit to what want to show on your response

OR

Hit "quote" when you are on your blank screen and copy and paste what you want to quote from the other person's response.

1. [QUOTE]

2. copy and paste the text

[QUOTE] Ok, how about another question?
How do you quote someone without quoting their entire post?

3. Close the Tag

[QUOTE] Ok, how about another question?
How do you quote someone without quoting their entire post? [/ QUOTE] (doing that so it will show up on the response)


Really, it is all a matter of preference
Molli526
03-21-2002, 03:44 PM
Doing the first gets you this....


Originally posted by Tiger
Ok, how about another question?
How do you quote someone without quoting their entire post?


Doing the second, gets you this


Ok, how about another question?
How do you quote someone without quoting their entire post?
mom_of_two
03-21-2002, 03:52 PM
Testing

How's this?

Cool!

Thanks everyone.



Lorie
sushibones
03-21-2002, 04:29 PM
Originally posted by Molli526
Doing the first gets you this....




Doing the second, gets you this



Thanks for this tip, Molli. I knew how to do the quote in reply, but couldn't figure out where the "originally posted by..." was coming from. I knew people weren't going in and adding it with italics.

A previous thread had given me info on the rest, so now I leave my screen on enhanced mode all the time. My husband is also on a BB (for flight simulators) and is envious of all the cool stuff we can do on this board. They didn't even have smilies until recently. :eek: :p
Norma
03-21-2002, 09:42 PM
Doing the second, gets you this

Testing


I didn't get the "quote" before the quote. what did I do wrong.
:(
Norma
03-21-2002, 09:49 PM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Norma



Testing

I think I answered my own question. :)
Norma
03-21-2002, 09:58 PM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Norma


I didn't get the "quote" before the quote. what did I do wrong.
:(

Trying again...I feel like I'm talking to myself. I guess I got it! Thanks everyone!
sushibones
03-21-2002, 10:25 PM
You appear to have left off the closing tag, so the computer doesn't know where the end of the quote is.

If you are using the enhanced mode, you have to click on the "close all tags" button; otherwise, use [/QUOTE] at the end of the part you want to quote.
Tiger
03-21-2002, 11:33 PM
Hit "quote" when you are on your blank screen and copy and paste what you want to quote from the other person's response.



Testing- thanks molli!
AnnaC
03-22-2002, 07:11 AM
I think I answered my own question.




Trying again...I feel like I'm talking to myself. I guess I got it! Thanks everyone![/COLOR]

just testing.... I feel like such a bb-wiz!!
AnnaC
03-22-2002, 07:13 AM
my above post didn't have the "originally posted by.." in italics above it- what did i do wrong? i guess its premature to call myself a wiz!
AnnaC
03-22-2002, 07:16 AM
Originally posted by AnnaC
i guess its premature to call myself a wiz!

wait.....I got it!!!
linsleyd
03-22-2002, 07:19 AM
okay, I want to try. I hope this works.....
Norma
03-22-2002, 04:25 PM
Originally posted by AnnaC
my above post didn't have the "originally posted by.." in italics above it- what did i do wrong? i guess its premature to call myself a wiz!

Testing...
Norma
03-22-2002, 04:30 PM
Okay, now I'm trying for color...
yay
Norma
03-22-2002, 04:33 PM
Okay, now for size


Now for bold & underline


I think I got it. :)
Tiger
03-22-2002, 04:59 PM
[QUOTE]my above post didn't have the "originally posted by.." in italics above it- what did i do wrong? i guess its premature to call myself a wiz!
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Ok, I can't figure how to do the "originally posted by" eather. It says to edit it. How do you do that?
sushibones
03-22-2002, 05:13 PM
At the bottom of each post are a bunch of buttons. "Quote" is on the far right. If you hit that one, the entire post (surrounded by quote tags) goes into the reply box and is preceded by "originally posted by..." If you only want part of the post, then delete the parts you don't want.

You can also use the quote function within the reply function, but in that case there is no "originally posted by...." It will just indent and put between lines what you put in between the quote tags.
Tiger
03-22-2002, 10:36 PM
Originally posted by sushibones
At the bottom of each post are a bunch of buttons. "Quote" is on the far right.

You can also use the quote function within the reply function, but in that case there is no "originally posted by...."

Ok, let me try.
sushibones
03-22-2002, 10:38 PM
There you go. Piece of cake, right? I have to admit, I just figured out how to do that from one of the other posts, so now I can act like I'm an expert. :p
Tiger
03-23-2002, 12:33 AM
Thanks Susan!
cherylopal
03-23-2002, 04:56 AM
Originally posted by Tiger


Ok, let me try.

me too! can i play too?!ok, i'm entering the text. blue blue is my fave color
but i love purple too!
thanks :)
cheryl
whose smilies still work only half the time:(
cherylopal
03-23-2002, 05:01 AM
thank you!
cherylopal
03-23-2002, 05:10 AM
just playing- i edited the last message over 6 times trying to get rid of the tags. finally i just deleted them. please let me try one more time


thank you!!
knunes
03-23-2002, 09:48 AM
Ralph,
I think I need extra help! Or remediation of some sort, at least.
I did click on "enhanced mode", but no prompt asks me to accept any cookies. Then whether I select what I want to change color on, or whether I click on the color first and then type, after I've closed the tags and previewed the reply, the only thing on there is plain text with the little codes next to it, but it hasn't really changed it to the color or to bold. Do I need to go to some other area to do something so it will ask me to accept cookies? Thanks.
Ralph
03-23-2002, 10:08 AM
Originally posted by knunes
I click on the color first and then type, after I've closed the tags and previewed the reply, the only thing on there is plain text with the little codes next to it, but it hasn't really changed it to the color or to bold. Do I need to go to some other area to do something so it will ask me to accept cookies? Thanks.

The changes won't appear in the grey box where you type your responses, but they will appear after you click "Submit Reply."
Lauren
03-23-2002, 12:50 PM
Originally posted by AnnaC


wait.....I got it!!!


:confused:Is this going to work

What am I doing wrong? The color is not working.

I finally got it!!!
sushibones
03-23-2002, 01:03 PM
Now you have to close the tags. You've only told where to start the changes, not where to stop. If you're in enhanced mode, then click "close all tags". Or you can close them manually by typing the close tags notation.

I have also found that if I type in the tags, rather than hitting the appropriate buttons, then the "close tag button" does not work. If you type them in manually, then you have to close them manually.

OK. I see you got it.

knunes—

If you hit the preview reply button, it should show the result of the tags, but not the tags themselves. So if you wanted something to be bold, it should show up bold in the preview. If it doesn't, then there is an error in the tags somewhere. You should check to be sure both open and close tags are there. If they are both there, then there is another problem somewhere. I have never noticed any mention of cookies, but my computer is also set to accept all cookies.

I use the preview reply button all the time, because even though I know what I'm supposed to do, I forget to close or something else. The preview makes it really easy to see if there's an error somewhere, and fix it before you show your mistake to everyone else.

Wish there was also a preview after you've edited a post.
sushibones
03-23-2002, 01:15 PM
Lee—

I don't think you can color/bold the smilies. It would be fun though, wouldn't it? Then you could do a really big red embarrassed or eek face! I've wanted one of those before.

You need to add text after your open tags, then close the tags after the text.

Hmmm. It appears Lee is editing while I'm giving her suggestions.
Lee
03-23-2002, 01:25 PM
Wow Susan!

I didn't think anyone would see me playing! I don't seem to be getting this which is quite ironic because I teach computer classes! What am I doing wrong... I changed to the Enhanced mode, hit bold, font and color, typed, and then closed the tags (Tried both buttons on different tries), but it isn't working. Any advice?

~Lee:(
sushibones
03-23-2002, 01:39 PM
I am the all-seeing Oz. No, I think I'm mixing up my genres. I saw your original post, and while I was replying, yours disappeared from the thread, so I knew you were editing (or deleting).

What you did sounds right, so I don't know what the problem is. Did you try looking at "preview reply" to see if there was anything obvious wrong?
Lee
03-23-2002, 01:47 PM
When I hit preview, it shows what I have typed without the color, size, etc. changes, but it has codes in brackets. Is that bad? It must be since this isn't working.


~Lee
Lee
03-23-2002, 01:58 PM
The good thing with all of this testing is that I have lost my junior status.
Lee
03-23-2002, 02:04 PM
Woo Hoo! This worked! Those "Help" buttons are amazing. Too bad my grill doesn't come with one of them!
sushibones
03-23-2002, 02:17 PM
Great—glad you got it figured out. And welcome to the exalted "senior" status.

Just wanted to let you know that many (well, maybe just me) of the more experienced posters still lapse into brain farts from time to time. I've been sticking around to see how you're doing and the new posts thread shows you've posted. I go to the thread and mine is still the last post. I go back to the new posts thread, and this thread shows 52 posts instead of the 50 that were there just a minute ago. I go to the thread and I'm still the last post. What in the heck is wrong? I finally saw that there was a page 2 notation at the bottom. Duh. I've set my options to 50 posts per page and your last 3 posts were on the 2nd page. It took me 10 minutes, though, to figure that out.:rolleyes:

Although the board does seem to be loading slowly and inconsistently today. Maybe it's just me.

So what was the problem, and how did you figure it out? Inquiring minds want to know!
knunes
03-23-2002, 02:46 PM
Originally posted by Ralph


The changes won't appear in the grey box where you type your responses, but they will appear after you click "Submit Reply."

Okay, I will try to trust that it's going to look different when I post it, but [SIZE=3]I'm really nervous!
knunes
03-23-2002, 02:48 PM
I half did it. Yet I think I did the same thing both times. Hmmmm..........Perhaps because at the end of the last sentence I only closed the current tag and didn't close all tags? I'll try that this time.
erinyyc
03-23-2002, 04:29 PM
New question.....how do you transfer a picture from a web site to an e-mail??

TIA
Erin :confused:
jennkristy
03-24-2002, 08:11 AM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Molli526
[B]One of 2 ways..

Either hit "quote" at the bottom of someone's response, and then edit to what want to show on your response


I'm just testing this.....I am new :o
Gracie
03-25-2002, 06:29 AM
OK I had to play too! Let's see how it worked!
pattyp.
02-08-2004, 11:40 AM
Originally posted by Lee
Woo Hoo! This worked! Those "Help" buttons are amazing. Too bad my grill doesn't come with one of them!
Hoosier Hokie
02-12-2004, 02:40 PM
I hope this works - I'm simply testing. :confused: I'm new to the boards and am trying to figure them out. Please forgive me if this does nothing. ;)

HH
Hoosier Hokie
02-12-2004, 02:45 PM
OK, that didn't work. :o Here's what I'm trying to do: I'm trying to put an avatar under my name, but color me computer-illiterate because I just can't figure it out. Grrr. :mad: Normally I'm not quite this dense. Can someone help me out? Please?

When I tried to get one, I got a message that said: "ADMINISTRATOR: You MUST revert your modifyoptions template." What does this mean? I read this thread and did turn on the Enhanced Mode, but that doesn't seem to have helped.

TIA for any help! :)

HH
tbb113
02-12-2004, 04:16 PM
Check out this thread (http://community.cookinglight.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53476&perpage=30&pagenumber=3) on helpful BB hints. I know there is some talk about avatars....
Hoosier Hokie
02-12-2004, 06:06 PM
Yeah!! :D :D It worked!! I found out that the problem was with AOL and when I logged on with Explorer, I didn't have a bit of a problem!

I'm one happy Hokie!!

HH