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I have inadvertently pressed a key somewhere my finger has strayed down the lower right hand side of the keyboard, and I am bedevilled by my name appearing in the middle of my posts as I type. Then when my post appears on the forum it reads "@ Belindi", which is a format I don't want. Please tell me how to get rid of it.
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@Belindi

I am probably not the best person to advise about how to fix the problem but I do agree that it can be a pain. I find that if I knock somewhere on my phone, because that's what I write on, all sorts of crazy things happen. Sometimes the name of the person I am writing the post to keeps repeating itself. I can't even manage to get boxes with quotes like most people do because on my browser it seems to go into crazy number code jargon. I hope that someone is able to solve your issue, or at least people will know why your name comes into the middle of your posts.
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Belindi wrote: February 12th, 2022, 6:49 am I have inadvertently pressed a key somewhere my finger has strayed down the lower right hand side of the keyboard, and I am bedevilled by my name appearing in the middle of my posts as I type. Then when my post appears on the forum it reads "@ Belindi", which is a format I don't want. Please tell me how to get rid of it.
I've noticed it happen if I reply-quote a post with @Gertie in it. If I delete the @Gertie bit it goes away
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Gertie wrote: February 15th, 2022, 4:21 pm
Belindi wrote: February 12th, 2022, 6:49 am I have inadvertently pressed a key somewhere my finger has strayed down the lower right hand side of the keyboard, and I am bedevilled by my name appearing in the middle of my posts as I type. Then when my post appears on the forum it reads "@ Belindi", which is a format I don't want. Please tell me how to get rid of it.
I've noticed it happen if I reply-quote a post with @Gertie in it. If I delete the @Gertie bit it goes away
I too noticed it happens only when the person to whom i am replying has quoted in that format. I can't make it go away permanently even by keying delete.
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Belindi

Oh no, is it when you reply to my posts that happens? The only reason why I am using that way of replying is because my browser doesn't allow me to create boxes with quotes. No one else has remarked about this happening. If this happens when I use that format perhaps it means that I should not interact with you. I could just use your name which would probably mean that you would just not receive a message to the reply. I will do this here because I don't wish to mess up posts.
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@Belindi



I have used the dreaded way of replying because I do wish you to find it. One thing which I wonder is there a need to quote the entire post which I have written when replying to me if that is the source of the problem? I have never understood why people include the whole post which they are responding too in the first place. It seems so cumbersome anyway. Also, it means that posts keep being repeated over and over again, especially if several people reply to a particular post. I can understand why people would use part of a post to quote but I have never understood why it is the whole one, because in books authors use short quotes. Or, maybe I am expecting the forum to read like a book, although I am saying this simpl because I don't wish for replying to anything which I write to present problems when replying.

I am not wishing to jinx your posts, so please advise. I may get a new phone or tablet a bit later this year but I don't know if that enable me to create boxes until I try it out because I doubt whether the staff in the phone shop will know. Please note that I have put your name several spaces away from what I have written to make it easier for you to chop that part off in a box reply.
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Yes Jack it happens when I reply to your posts. I eventually realised it was only replies to you where it happened. If you click on Full Editor & Preview you have available at the top of the message box a row of icons one of which is the quote icon (inverted commas) You just highlight the bit you want to quote and press the inverted commas icon, then you have the boxed-in quotation after you press Submit . I hope this helps.
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Belindi wrote: February 15th, 2022, 7:34 pm Yes Jack it happens when I reply to your posts. I eventually realised it was only replies to you where it happened. If you click on Full Editor & Preview you have available at the top of the message box a row of icons one of which is the quote icon (inverted commas) You just highlight the bit you want to quote and press the inverted commas icon, then you have the boxed-in quotation after you press Submit . I hope this helps.
I am trying this out so I don't know if will work or not, so it is an experiment...
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JackDaydream wrote: February 15th, 2022, 7:37 pm
Belindi wrote: February 15th, 2022, 7:34 pm Yes Jack it happens when I reply to your posts. I eventually realised it was only replies to you where it happened. If you click on Full Editor & Preview you have available at the top of the message box a row of icons one of which is the quote icon (inverted commas) You just highlight the bit you want to quote and press the inverted commas icon, then you have the boxed-in quotation after you press Submit . I hope this helps.
I am trying this out so I don't know if will work or not, so it is an experiment...
It seems that it has worked, so thank you for teaching me! A couple of people had queried why I was not using that format of replying and I thought that I would have to be able to draw an actual box in my reply.
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The moment I see an @ symbol in a post I'm quoting, I remove it.

Perfect formatting will prevent problems but it's easier just to remove the symbols in quotes IMO.
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Sy Borg wrote: February 15th, 2022, 8:14 pm The moment I see an @ symbol in a post I'm quoting, I remove it.

Perfect formatting will prevent problems but it's easier just to remove the symbols in quotes IMO.
You don't have to delete it, you can simply put a space between the @ and the Belindi.
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Jack, there is often a problem about whether or not to post the entire post or highlight, copy and paste the bit of post that is of particular interest . I confess I am partial to the latter as I like brevity, but the poster to who I am replying may object that the bit I copied and pasted is out of context.
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Belindi wrote: February 16th, 2022, 9:02 am Jack, there is often a problem about whether or not to post the entire post or highlight, copy and paste the bit of post that is of particular interest . I confess I am partial to the latter as I like brevity, but the poster to who I am replying may object that the bit I copied and pasted is out of context.
For the time being, I may just write replies by pressing the quote button , which means that the entire post shows up in the reply which is written. This seems to be what most people are doing. Ideally, I would like to be able to cut up and paste but I really don't know how to do this on my phone.

It may be different if people are using it computer with a mouse. The thing is it probably varies how it appears on the screen depending on what devices are being used. That is because I was writing on a tablet at one point and everything appeared differently there.

For the time being, I will start using the quote boxes but don't want to be too adventurous in chopping things up and conjure up all kinds of demons and monsters within the post, or potential ones in those who may reply to mine.
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☺Well do I know some of the tech "demons and monsters" when replying. Sometimes I use the following simple dialogue format which I hope makes it clear who said what:

Belindi wrote: It's a fine morning but my fence is down.

Jack replied: Is it to be a hammer and nails repair?

I replied: I have propped it up but will have to get a new one.

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Thanks Lucky. Will do.
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JackDaydream wrote: February 16th, 2022, 9:44 am
Belindi wrote: February 16th, 2022, 9:02 am Jack, there is often a problem about whether or not to post the entire post or highlight, copy and paste the bit of post that is of particular interest . I confess I am partial to the latter as I like brevity, but the poster to who I am replying may object that the bit I copied and pasted is out of context.
For the time being, I may just write replies by pressing the quote button , which means that the entire post shows up in the reply which is written. This seems to be what most people are doing. Ideally, I would like to be able to cut up and paste but I really don't know how to do this on my phone.

It may be different if people are using it computer with a mouse. The thing is it probably varies how it appears on the screen depending on what devices are being used. That is because I was writing on a tablet at one point and everything appeared differently there.

For the time being, I will start using the quote boxes but don't want to be too adventurous in chopping things up and conjure up all kinds of demons and monsters within the post, or potential ones in those who may reply to mine.
You can divide up a block of quoted text by typing out quote between these brackets [ ] before the start of the bit you want to quote and /quote between [ ] brackets at the end of the part you want to quote.

If you've already block quoted a reply you'd have to type /quote (between the [ ] brackets) where you want the first chunk of the quoted text to end.

Then type quote between [ ] before the new block of quoted text, ending that chunk with /quote between [ ]. And so on.

I've made it sound more complicated than it is, but if you have the [ ] keys on your device it's easy really. Just type quote between those brackets to start the quote, and /quote between those brackets to end it.
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