Replying to a PM but messages go to outbox and not sent box

[voix]

I am suddenly having a problem with pms. I am responding to a pm and instead of goinf to sent box, it is going to out box. However, there is a message that says it was sent, but it shows up in out box.

any tips?

[aklap]

That just means the other person has not read the message yet. Once they do, it will move.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[voix]

Oh, okay. I have had so many problems with the computer this week. I even had to strip it and reinstall windows. I thought it was another problem.

Thanks

[ostrich]

Wow. What was so bad that you had to reinstall Windows?
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[aklap]

[voix]

Thanks for the tip. I hope that I won't need it. I would like to learn how to do that hyperlink within a sentence, though. I figured out the quote technique.


My computer went into a perpetual boot without allowing a safe mode boot or any other one. I opened up an adobe attachment from a relatively safe source. It was taking too long and I had decided that I didn't need to read it as I could guess what was in there, so I tried to shut it down when it was opening. It got stuck, so I just turned off the computer with the button and not ctl alt del. Then when I tried to turn it on, it wouldn't go into the op system.

I hate to lose all the bookmarks, but figured out how to perpetually save them with firefox. IE is perpetually saying that I need to upgrade to IE7 but won't do the final installation. So I just turned of automatic updates and went over to firefox. Why does MS release product that is not perfected? It is so timeconsuming and frustrating.

[ostrich]

<-- is regretting buying a laptop with Vista. Should've gotten a Mac.

That's a neat little trick Al. Thanks!

How to make a hyperlink:

1. Get the hyperlink you want! In this case, let's pretend you want to link to Google. You'll need the address (URL) from your browser window: http://www.google.com. Copy that.

2. Go back to your post here. Type in the text you want to use as a link. Let's use "This is a link to Google."

3. Highlight the text and hit the URL button at the top of your post. The text should now look like this (without the *s): [*url]This is a link to Google[*/url].

4. Well, now you have your link, but it leads to nowhere! You need to tell those [url]s where to go. So modify the first [url] to look like this (without the *s): [*url=http://www.google.com].

5. You're finished! The final link should look like this while typing your post (without the *s):

[*url=http://www.google.com]This is a link to Google[/url].

And like this when you post it:

This is a link to Google.
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I lie below, you float above
In the pretty white ships that I am dreaming of

[voix]

Thanks, Smarty!

Does this format with the [ ] and [/] work everywhere, or just in this forum?

[ostrich]

By "everywhere" do you mean the internet in general? Or boards like these?

HTML (and other similar internet languages) for the most part use the same basic principle. It just looks a little different. It uses <> instead of []. These are known as tags. Their purpose is to tell the browser what to do in-between each tag. So, in the case of the URL tags, the browser is told "Hey, this text is a hyperlink. And when the user clicks on it, it's gonna take them to wherever that equals sign points."

When you're typing it in here, you format it like I did above:

[voix]

great, thanks. I was thinking "everywhere" would mean places like IMDb and the like.

[celiacmaine-iac]

I'm so excited!!! I finally made a hyperlink! I PM'd it to myself and it worked!

Now Os, the thing I want to know is this. How do you make the quote thing work where you put the quote in and then just before it it says, for example "Os said"? I can do the quote, but it always says "quote" just before it. If I want to give credit, I have to put in the "Os said", but it still says "quote". Seems redundant. I'm sure it's simple for everyone but this old dinosaur.
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[aklap]

[quote="celiacmaine-iac"]
Now Os, the thing I want to know is this. How do you make the quote thing work where you put the quote in and then just before it it says, for example "[b]Os said[/b]"? I can do the quote, but it always says "quote" just before it. If I want to give credit, I have to put in the "Os said", but it still says "quote". Seems redundant. I'm sure it's simple for everyone but this old dinosaur. [/quote]

Well done!!!

Here's how to do the quote...look carefully above at the quote ='s You can put whatever you want in between quotes.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[aklap]

If you want to get really fancy - you can make the quote line a link. I've done this in a few posts of the CELP thread.

This combines the URL and the quote...

[quote="[url=http://www.hormelfoods.com/faqs.aspx#allergens]Hormel FAQ Page[/url]"][u]Which food allergens are recognized in Hormel Foods products?[/u]

We recognize the top eight allergens:

Peanuts
Tree Nuts
Milk Products
Eggs
Soy
Wheat
Crustaceans
Fish
These will be clearly listed on the ingredient listing.


If you have any questions, please call our Customer Service Representatives at 1-800-523-4635.[/quote]
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[aklap]

Here's what the above will look like....

[celiacmaine-iac]