I think I understand now what you're saying, Jeff. Have done the same in the past as well as sometimes now. Depends on what I want to say and where I want it to fit in.
When I do let my text mix with the quoted text to which I am replying, I always bold it, change font color, or do *something* to differentiate it from the text. How did you miss the bold, Jeff? *~Diane* “Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.” ~ (old adage) On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Jeff Grossman <[email protected]> wrote: > Diane, > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:32 PM, DEP/Dodo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Jeff Grossman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Personally I wouldn't reply on the same line as the previous person's >>> comment and make it bold. It is sometimes difficult to see which is your >>> new text and which is the previous person's comment. Any new comments you >>> add should always be on their own line. >>> *So this doesn't work for you? To me, it's clear who wrote what. >>> However, I wouldn't want to do this past one reply as here.* >>> >>> > This is an inline reply. If you notice I hit enter in the middle of the > quoted text and putting my reply in between two parts of the quoted text. > If you see, your text is mixed completely in with the quoted text and > sometimes hard to see that you typed in a reply. Mine does not have the > vertical bars signifying that it is quoted text because it is not. > > Honestly I did not even see you had typed anything above until after I > started typing this. Because it is part of the quoted text I missed it. > > > >> When a reply is not inline, it is either top posted (your reply is above >>> the quote) or bottom posted (your reply is below the quote). An inline >>> reply is when your replies are in the middle of the quoted text. >>> >> I'm not clear on your explanation of "inline," Jeff. "In the middle of >> the quoted text"? I did understand Marko's statement, >> >> " >> If you wish to do an inline reply, simply select the text you want to >> quote then hit the Reply button. There will be just one line at the top and >> your reply will begin below the quoted text. >> " I will assume that's what you meant. If not, please reply. >> > > By typing part of the reply in the middle of the quoted text is inline. I > consider what Marko said to be bottom posting. But, what Marko said is how > you would start to do an inline reply. I selected the part of the e-mail I > wanted to reply to, hit Reply, found where I wanted to put in a reply, hit > enter two times and started typing. Then I went to the bottom of the > message and typed this part of the reply. > > Hope that helps. > > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gmail-users/UOL0T0GmxJM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
