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Another Way to Smallify Text
Many WebTV users got the so-called "colors" update on August 30, 2000. Along with changes to our email color schemes, there were changes on the Home Screen, a new look for our Favorite folders, and other changes too numerous to mention. And with this update came a new way to smallify. or "quote" text. So, for your edification, here are the instructions for the new method of quoting text.
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The Short, Simple Version
1. Copy and paste quote. Edit, if necessary.
2. Shorten right-hand margin using right arrow key, then hit Return
key once on each line.
3. Put these symbols... ))..... at beginning of each line of quoted text. Three ))) or
four )))) will indent more.
Thats all there's to it!
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Longer, Explanatory Version
After you have pasted the text you want to quote, you must do some editing with your Return key.
We have been taught to let text wrap by itself onto the next line, rather than hitting the Return key as you would on a typewriter. However, to smallify text, we must use the Return key to sort of "block up" the text with the Return key.
After you have pasted the text to be quoted, you must visually create a stopping point on the screen which would be approximately 3/4 of the way across the screen. Now, using your arrow keys, move your cursor over to the new, imaginary right-hand margin and hit Return. Do this when your cursor is directly in front of a word, not in mid-word.
Do this for each line of text.
This paragraph you are reading
is an example of what your
blocked text might look like.
Notice how the right-hand margin
has been shortened.
If you don't chop off the text,
but allow the text to wrap,
this procedure won't work!
Once you have finished blocking the text, you are ready to place the parenthesis symbol at the beginning of each line of text. This is the symbol I am referring to......... ) .........
Placing one ending parenthesis symbol at the beginning of each line of text will create single indention. Using two parentheses marks will create double indention. Three, or even four symbols will indent the quoted text even more!
Practice using it in e-mail to yourself. It won't take long to learn!
Have Fun!
My most sincere thanks go out to GOOGLEHEIMER and papapat for their assistance in helping me to learn this newest procedure!
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