Christ and the church is the Kingdom (semi-private discussion)

[OBW]

As a practical note. I have typically gone to the post from which I intended to quote, pressed the “quote” button and then copied the entire thing into a Word document and done my editing there. Just situate the [ quote ...]at the beginning of any part you want to quote and end it with [ /quote ] (note I have inserted spaces to keep it from disappearing into the formatting of this post).

You can even go to another post and do the same, then put quotes from different posts into the same response.

The good part about using Word or another offline word processor is better visibility to the whole post and a better spell checker.

The bad part is getting it moved back to the forum. Unfortunately, I note that Word copies a bunch of additional codes back into the forum that it cannot handle. So you need a mediator. I use Notepad. Copy the whole thing into Notepad. You will need to add a single space on each blank line. Something about the HTML formatting doesn’t like to keep two “return” symbols without something intervening — like a space. Then copy from Notepad and paste into the forum “reply” box. If you had some colored lettering or bolding, you will need to do that again in the forum's edit box.

Pain in the you-know-what. But the results are better. It keeps you (and me) from responding too fast. Gives a chance to look at it and rethink wording.

If there is a better way, let me know. Once my computers went to Vista and/or Word 2007, direct copy-paste from Word just wasn’t an option. But I really like the features of Word when writing.