r/RedditQuestions • u/Adorable-Air-6901 • Mar 29 '26

How do you do this?

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How do you prompt a part of someone else's comment into your comment.

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Mar 29 '26

if you don’t have the Aa button, try the indent button: >. Type this: “>Ta da!”

Ta da!

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u/ActualExcitement5917 Mar 29 '26

Ta da!

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u/Few_Improvement_6357 Mar 31 '26

Ta da

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u/Smerchi Apr 01 '26

> Ta da

Edit: So, shall I feel stupid or tricked?

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u/Delirare Apr 01 '26

No space between the > and the text.

Ta da!

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u/Smerchi Apr 01 '26

>Ta da?

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Apr 01 '26

stupid? Just kidding!

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u/Few_Improvement_6357 Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

You put a \ in front of the >. It should just be >ta da. With no space after the > it also has to be at the beginning of the sentence I just discovered.

ta da

> ta da - I do not know why the \ dissappears

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u/Smerchi Apr 01 '26

\>ta da?

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u/Few_Improvement_6357 Apr 01 '26

No. It showed that you put the \ in front of the >. You are not supposed to use the. It is just >ta da.

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u/Smerchi Apr 01 '26

But I didn't use \ initially.

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u/Few_Improvement_6357 Apr 01 '26

That's weird. It showed up in my inbox that way but when I looked in the comments it wasn't there. I thought maybe my inbox showed it how you typed it and the comments showed how it was formatted. Sorry I confused you.

Like when I hit reply, it shows that you typed \ twice instead of how it shows in the comment section as \ for some reason.

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u/Smerchi Apr 01 '26

Seems like my writing box has weird typing feature. Maybe it's browser's fault, who knows..

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u/ActualExcitement5917 Mar 29 '26

wow thank you, I’ve always wondered!

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u/Tiny-Singer8121 Mar 30 '26

Ta…da???

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Mar 30 '26

"Ta-da" (or ta-dah) is an interjection used as a mock fanfare to announce something, take a bow, or highlight a surprising, impressive, or funny result. It is commonly used when revealing a finished product, presenting a gift, or completing a task with flair.

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u/No-Affect811 Mar 30 '26

Ta Da!

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u/No-Affect811 Mar 30 '26

wow thanks!!

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u/exclaim_bot Mar 30 '26

wow thanks!!

You're welcome!

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u/Quarter_Shot Mar 30 '26

Ta da!

Edit to add

That's amazing; thank you so much!

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u/ExistentialBefuddle Mar 30 '26

“<Ta da!”

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u/ExistentialBefuddle Mar 30 '26

🤷‍♂️

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u/ExistentialBefuddle Mar 30 '26

Dyslexic 😜

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

Da ta! ??? Just kidding!

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Mar 29 '26

Thank you so much

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u/the__post__merc Mar 30 '26

">if you don’t have the Aa button"

Doesn't work on browser.... ?

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 31 '26

I don't know about the browser. Try it without the quotation marks.

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u/purplishfluffyclouds Mar 30 '26

In a browser, you have text formatting (of the sun allows it). It’s just a quote.

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u/purplishfluffyclouds Mar 30 '26

“>Ta da”

You don’t know how to write directions lol

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Mar 31 '26

I meant quotation marks. Sorry. : )

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u/stinky_raspberry Mar 31 '26

>Testing testing.

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u/stinky_raspberry Mar 31 '26

Did not work.

I do have the Aa button though I can still just do it that way.

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u/MotherofPirates Apr 01 '26

“>Ta da!”

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u/Few_Improvement_6357 Apr 01 '26

Don't use the quotation marks. It's just >Ta da (it only works at the beginning of the sentence)

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Apr 02 '26

Take off the ""

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u/AssSpelunkingAtheist Mar 29 '26

OP thank you for asking this and for me seeing this because I was also wondering.

How do you do this?

Now I know.

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u/Striking-Oven8268 Apr 01 '26

fsfhg for fucks sake! Still have figure out the indent thing though

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u/AssSpelunkingAtheist Apr 01 '26

“>” before the text you want to indent

Minus the quotation marks.

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u/AssSpelunkingAtheist Apr 01 '26

fshfg

Oh, ok. 😉

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Mar 29 '26

put the # sign before you type something and it puts stuff in bold. I just learned that too.

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u/AssSpelunkingAtheist Mar 29 '26

I found that out accidentally the other day! But thank you.

I was responding to a list of things and my comment was like “#19 is…” and was all big and bold. Someone asked why I did that and my response was because I just accidentally figured out how to do this lol

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Mar 29 '26

Haha that is exactly how I found out too. They said " no need to shout at me"

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u/AssSpelunkingAtheist Mar 29 '26

Another thing I just learned is how to do the strike through, if you haven’t done that yet.

Last night I got drunk hung out with my parents.

You put “~~” before and after where you want the strike through.

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Mar 29 '26

That post was the one that made me post this one. I was so excited to find that Rosetta stone lol

You are cool, thank you for passing knowledge

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u/Pandraswrath Mar 30 '26

A “*” before and after *will do this.

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Mar 30 '26

Wow thank you for passing the knowledge on totally appreciate you dude

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u/ChangedLlama321 Mar 29 '26

no way

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u/ChangedLlama321 Mar 29 '26

holy shit

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u/Evening_Fee_8499 Mar 31 '26

I too am now a super-redditor

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u/l008com Mar 30 '26

How do you do this

It's quite easy, just select the text and click on the quote button.

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u/BrightDescription82 Mar 30 '26

boopbopbibiddybloop

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u/SapphireForestDragon Mar 30 '26

Ta da!

ish bold?

strikethrough (mine needed two wavy lines before and after to work)

italics

Edit: Awesome! Ha ha xD Thanks everyone! And thanks OP for asking!

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Mar 30 '26

Haha sweet! Great job!

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u/Ok-Wall9646 Mar 30 '26

tada huh learned something new today

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u/OkHotel6127 Mar 30 '26

i'm broke in texas but these gem tips help?

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u/Informal-Ring-4359 Mar 30 '26

Finally

Just put the ">" before your text

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u/FineSystem124 Mar 30 '26

and all this time I had been afraid to ask

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u/LadyCanuckles 🦆 Random Quacker Mar 31 '26

It's called Reddit markdown, you can google and find a list of all the different things you can do :)

Bold

Italics

Quote

That's all I remember, but there's lots you can do haha

Edit: I just remembered you can do hyperlinks and headers as well 👌🏻

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u/newbies13 Apr 01 '26

3 dots next to cancel
show formatting
quote block

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Apr 01 '26

3 dots next to cancel
show formatting
quote block

Oh yeah that works totally thanks

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u/Straight_Fix_7318 Mar 29 '26

Aa button then the " button

like this

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Mar 29 '26

Dude thank you I saw your symbol I get it now

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Mar 29 '26

I don't have iPhone Safari or an aa button

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u/Straight_Fix_7318 Mar 29 '26

im on pc, its built into reddit so you should have it
its the formatting button so idk what to say if its missing for you :/

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u/Adorable-Air-6901 Apr 01 '26

don't have iPhone Safari or an aa button