how do you include a message from someones post with the new message you are trying to post. the one thats always hi-lited in blue or grey, and includes the user name.

Click on the quote button at the bottom right hand corner on the post you want to respond to.

checking to see if this works....................

okay great! thank you!

but what if you only want to use some of the original post, how do you quote a partial post. lol sorry for being such a nincompoop, but i've been wanting to know this 4 a while now

When you hit the "Quote" button, it puts the person's original post in the box where you type your post, so you can just delete the sentences/paragraphs/whatever that you don't want.

Just make sure you only delete words from the post, and don't delete the stuff that's surrounded by brackets ( "[" and "]" ), because that's the code that the forums put in so that the quoted part comes out highlighted and boxed in.

thanks so much for the help