Can anyone tell me what is the difference between 'fast reply' and 'addreply'? I find that 'addreply' goes up immediately anyway.

'Fast reply' adds a box at the bottom of the screen, with none of the formatting things, like bold, italic, underline, different sizes, fonts, colours, smilies etc.

'Reply' takes you to a new screen with all the formatting tools.

"Fast Reply" actually means that the rest of the board members have to read the new post really quickly when it appears in a thread, otherwise they get moderated for breach of forum etiquette...

One difference is I think that you don't get offered all the editing options with the fast reply, like bold, underline etc. Also the smileys don't automatically appear - you can get them up if you need them but they're not there to start with.

Ah, I see!

Many thanks!

When you do fast reply you can do bold and smilies etc but you need to know the coding etc yourself... you can too, um, yeah most of the options are available but not as automatic click-this-button things. useful though.

this was done on the quick reply, hope I got all the cody bits right or I'll look a right banana!

I always find fast reply to be slower because however good my intentions, I always seem to need to bring up the smiley window.