Just click the little folder/quote icon that's in the bottom right corner of the post that you would like to quote. This one --->
It will automatically format the text so that it shows up in a "quote box", like so:
quote:
Originally posted by JeanieB:
Hello All! Sorry, this is probably a dumb question, but I see how so many of you include all or part of the text in a thread into your reply. I can copy and paste but don't get the white lines above and below the text.
If you want to only quote a small piece of the post, and not the whole thing, just delete the parts that you don't want before posting, but make sure you leave the bracketed "QUOTE" and "/QUOTE" parts intact, like so:
quote:
Originally posted by JeanieB:
I can copy and paste but don't get the white lines above and below the text.