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Originally posted by Jabbergah:
BTW, sometime you need to give me a crash course in how to post links and referrals to the archives or different locations in the forum.
One thing is to get the URL for the correct post. Once you have that, then you click on the
icon down with the other UBBCode icons. You'll first be prompted to enter in the URL. Click on "OK", then you'll be prompted for the text. That's where I key in ">>> Click here <<<", but everyone enters in different text.
I only use the URL icon for long addresses. It gets kind of messy if you post a long address without the URL icon because it widens the display for every other post on that page and makes it difficult to read because you have to use the horizontal slide.
The tough thing is to find the specific post within the topic. Posting the beginning of a topic can add a lot of unnecessary reading. You probably already saw this, but if you click on someone's post count, you'll get a list of the last 100 or so posts by that person. Then you can click on the "Subject" column to go to that post. Once you find the one you want, then select the URL.
It's rare that someone comes here and asks a question that hasn't been answered before. And it's rare that the question hasn't been answered by Sara. Since Sara is the Goddess, I always try to find her answer first. So, that's where the forum's "search" (at the top) comes in handy. In "Author name" I enter "Sniper Sara B." (without quotes). The toughest thing is decide what to put into "Search Words", because Sara may answer a question without referring to the actual problem (or noun). But, after awhile you start to remember some word that Sara used, and you search on that word. An example is finding the post about getting a refund for a fraudulent seller. I always remember that her post contained the word "negative", so that's how I find it. Sometimes I can't remember any of Sara's key words, so I'll just pull out the thesaurus and bang away.
Another reason I like to search on Sara's posts is that towards the end of May the forum's servers were changed by infopop. That wiped out the ability to search on a person's posts other then Sara. She lost her post count and registration date, but for some reason she kept the link to her old posts. The opposite happen to everyone else.
Also, I don't know if you've seen this, but on the pages for each of the forums you can click on the entries in the "Last Post" column and go straight to the last post. This can be very helpful to get to the recent posts on topics with multiple pages.
The nice thing about the archives is that even if you don't know the answer, by providing a link to one of Sara's posts, you still have helped out the person, and saved Sara the time to answer it for the 100th time.
(I sure hope Lexie doesn't see this long post.)
Well, OK -- I'll get the Wite-Out. As if I already don't have enough Wite-Out blobs on my screen! 
-- with less hair & MONEY! 
