Linking To Specific Post In a Thread

[Ward Grant]

I know I can link to a previous thread when replying to a question, but can I link to a particular post in that thread. Suppose there are 56 replies to a post and someone asks a question in a new thread that was answered in Post 17 of the old thread. Can I make a link that goes directly to Post 17 or can I only say "This previous thread has your answer. Look at Post 17" and make a generic link.

[NMarti]

Ward
Any time I have tried it I always have to just say which response answers the question. I always seems to go to the first or last post in the thread depending on how you have your preferences set but not to a specific response. If there is a way that I'm missing I too would love to know.

[Wendy]

Hi ...

I haven't found a way to do it ... so I tend to give the message number :)

Wendy

[Bayla]

Ward,

I think you can go to a specific page in a thread if the thread runs to more than one page. For instance this link will take you to page 4 of a five page thread:

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9755&page=4

Then you'd have to specify post#.

Bayla

[Wendy]

Hi ...

There is a slight problem with specifying the page in the link ... as the page number depends on what each person has set their number of posts per page to (User Control>Edit Options).

It confused me for a while until I worked out what was happening :)

Wendy

[Bayla]

Hi Wendy,

I didn't think of that. So if I send a link like I did above but someone has got their options set to 40 posts per page they'll get a different result when they click on the link to someone else who has it set to forum default?

Bayla

[TonyW]

You can do it by clicking on the #xy on the top right hand corner of the post. That opens the specific post up in a new window and you can copy and paste the URL like this:

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showpost.php?p=107947&postcount=43

Tony

[Bayla]

Tony,

Thanks. You learn something new every day!

Bayla

[TonyW]

You're welcome. I didn't realise you could do that here either but I'd seen it done on another forum so looked around for something clickable and got lucky :)

Tony

[Wendy]

Hey Tony ...

You are a star !!!

Wendy

[Ward Grant]

Tony, Thanks for the neat tip.

[Dorrie H.]

Nice going Tony, It seems there's always a way to do something you didn't think could be done. Wel will have to pass on this new feature to our fellow forum users.

Also nice to hear about Pixentral.

Dorrie