I tried to insert prior posting to respond to new post. It didn't work. Help! Can someone explain how to make it work?

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Hi Janet,
Click on the +Quote for the post that you want to insert
Then , click “Add reply’ on the post in which you want to make the insertion.
The quote will be added automatically.

Let me know if it works

Denise I want to insert anther posting thread - not quote something that is in the current thread. I have tried to use the "insert: post link" in the left menu but can't seem to make it work. When you click the box it asks for "Post ID" and "title for this link" I must not be entering the right stuff ........

Sorry for the misleading title.

The software is trying to give you a shortcut way to create a link to a particular post in a particular message topic, when you're composing the text of a reply message; the text of the post won't be dropped into the reply message, but you don't need to know any HTML or other stuff in order to create a hypertext link to the post.

For example, now (as I type this reply message) I'll click on the "Insert: Post Link" in the Quick Access menu at left; Here's a link to a post by pmacduff in another message topic

I did that by putting 157988 into one box and "Here's a link to a post by pmacduff in another message topic" in another box.

It's not easy to know the post number (each post has a different number); it appears that one way is to click "Post #4" up towards the top right of any particular post (in this example it's the 4th post in a message topic), which generates a long URL that is actually the guts of the thing that the "Insert: Post Link" is trying to avoid. In my example, it's

http://benefitslink.com/boards/index.php?s...st&p=157988

So you could get the post number from that URL: it's the number following p=

This "Insert: Post Link" shortcut is more trouble than it's worth, I think. Maybe there's an easier way to determine a post number, though.

To make this all the more complicated, a "post link" is a link to a particular post, and a "topic link" (also in that drop-down menu) is a link to a "topic," which is the name for the post that starts a particular message topic (to which reply posts are made). I don't know how to determine the topic number for any particular message topic, other than looking at its URL in the address bar of your browser while you're viewing that message topic.

The company that makes the software used for these message boards seems to be imitating Microsoft in trying to add more and more features, but it with increased "power" comes increasing complexity.

Still testing

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I did it - YIPPY

thanks a million Dave - it worked!

Pretty cool.

I did not know you could do that. I did not even realize those options were to the left. Shows how observant I am. I usually go straight to the insert (hyper) link option at the top. But I like this for inserting posts