Rudiments of Posting on Invision Power Board

[TampaYankee]

For those inquiring about the ins and outs of posting using the new Invision Power Board message software, here are some rudimentary instructions. This won't make you a power user but it should get you going. Experience is always the best teacher but sometimes it may need a bit of a kick start.

To post: Login, access Forums page, click on particular Forum to open that Forum page.

To start a new topic in a Forum: Click the NEW TOPIC button on the right hand side above the topics list and across page from the Forum title, e.g. across page from 'The Pub'. Fill in topic title. I ignore optional topic description because it just gets appended to title. So just put up the title. Fill in message, scroll down to SPELL CHECK, POST NEW TOPIC or PREVIEW POST buttons. Ignore stuff in between that area and message block. Choose your poison: among spelling, post or preview. Make any corrections in the message if spell errors are found or based on preview. (You do not have to do these steps, just if you wish.) Finally click POST NEW TOPIC and your message is posted.

To add to topic in a Forum: Cick on topic title. You have two options: 1) respond to specific post and 2) add general comment to the whole thread not specific to any comment.

To reply to specific post in a Forum: Click on reply button under specific post. A message window will open with the message quoted so that it is clear what the response is in reply to. Add your comments under the quoted text. Scroll down again, do the SPELL CHECK, ADD REPLY or PREVIEW REPLY thing.

If you wish to ADD a GENERAL COMMENT to a thread not specific to any individual message then click on topic title, scroll all the way down below all contributed messages and click on the Add Reply button. The standard message text window opens and the process to spell check, add or preview is the same as before.

[Lucky]

Huh?

[MsGuy]

Apparently TY has no faith in our ability to randomly click on stuff until we find something that works.

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Propellor heads!

Ya gotta have 'em, but personally I'm of the opinion they should sit quietly in the back row until called upon.

[Guest EXPAT]

Well he did write that post in 2007 back when the forum was fairly new.