How to quote comments in the reply on New Connect

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Hello Fellow LGs,

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A new welcome change is introduced to reply to the previous comments. Earlier a text box to type the reply used to be at the extreme bottom of the post. Now, a new message box pops up as soon as reply icon is clicked on desktop.

This is helpful in writing either a simple reply to the previous comment or with quoting the previous comment in the reply.

This post is intended to help and explain the steps to quote comments in the reply on New Connect.

Steps:

For desktop browsers to use ‘Quote’

Step 1: Select the texts to be quoted in the reply and click on ‘Quote’ as shown in Photo1.

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Step 2 : On clicking ‘Quote’, a message box to type reply with the above selected quote will pop up as shown in Photo2.

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Step 3 : Type the reply text and click on ‘Reply’ button as shown in Photo3.

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Step 4 : On clicking ‘Reply’ button, it will appear as shown in Photo4. You are done.

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For desktop browsers to use ‘Copy Quote’

Step A: Select the texts to be quoted in the reply, click on ‘Copy Quote’ and then click on reply icon as shown in Photo5.

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Step B: On clicking reply icon, a message box to type reply will pop up as shown in Photo6.

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Step C : Paste the earlier ‘Copy Quote’ as in Step A, here in the new message box as shown in Photo7.

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Step D : Type the reply text and click on ‘Reply’ button as shown in Photo8.

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Step E : On clicking ‘Reply’ button, it will appear as shown in Photo9. You are done.

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Happy showing and shining well crafted reply.

Hope you find this post useful.

Keep building a well-informed community stronger :flexed_biceps: together.

Stay Happy, Stay Healthy!

JAI HO!!!

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Its a very helpful post @Kumaarsantosh :clap:

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Thank you for appreciating the effort @SaylliWalve1.

I was getting couple of queries around this as I am one of the frequent users of this feature. Hence, thought of jotting it down together for everyone’s benefit.

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Thanks for crafting an impressive tutorial for quoting from posts in replies @Kumaarsantosh

I greatly appreciate the neat and clear screenshots that illustrate the concept.

An additional way to quote that I found by habit is:

Copy a line from a post using regular Ctrl + C on the keyboard.
After that, when I click the Reply button, the copied text is automatically inserted as quoted text.

Note: I have tested this on the Edge browser only. So not sure if it will work on other browsers.

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Thank you @TusharSuradkar for your kind words.

Yes - it does work on Chrome as well.

This has only one limitation of using it in a new reply only.

E.g. In this reply of mine the first quote I have used through selecting “Quote’ and clicking on reply icon. Then I tried copy the other line starting with 'An additional way to…”, it did not allow and then I just used ‘Copy Quote’ option.

In case of new and only reply, your suggested option as given below is quite fast and useful.

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:+1: Erklärt, danke

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Thank you @Annaelisa for your affirmation. Happy that you liked it.

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That is a wonderful find - noted @Kumaarsantosh :+1:

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That’s an excellent feature. Thank you for giving a detailed step by step instruction which makes it easy to follow @Kumaarsantosh

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Thank you @Kumaarsantosh, for taking your time and making this useful tutorial for our community.

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Happy that you liked it @Ssiddharth2000. Thank you for your affirmation.

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My pleasure @NareshDarji. Happy to know that you found this useful for the community. Thank you!

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@Kumaarsantosh Excellent guide for the newbies :ok_hand:

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Thank you @KetanChhaniyara for your best compliments!

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Hello dear @Kumaarsantosh,

You have explained both the methods in very simple/easy to understand style…
Great work!
Appreciate your efforts and dedication to bring out this informative post.
Regards

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Thank you @TravellerG for your wise words.

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This post is an informative and helpful tutorial. Thank you, dear friend @Kumaarsantosh, for taking the time to explain it in simple steps.

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Thank you dear friend @PrasadVR for your encouraging words. Glad to hear that you felt its relevance.

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Acknowledge your response, my dear friend @Kumaarsantosh
Regards

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