What course of action should I take?

[SnowflakeVT]

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@BassDad

The number identifies a specific post and, if included in the quote tag, it will produce a small arrow linking directly to the post that corresponds to the number. One way to see the number is to go to the post in question. Click on the number at the far right of the header in the post (#20 for this message at present.) That will open up another tab or window with only that post in it. The URL for that tab or window will be be something like</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13068168-post20.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/13068168-post20.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>and the number you want is the one before the hyphen.

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<p>If this worked then BassDad is the bomb.</p>

[SnowflakeVT]

<p>and of course he is! Thanks BassDad.</p>

[BassDad]

<p>You’re welcome. Notice what happened with the link that you quoted in my post, however. I had enclosed it in noparse tags so that it would appear as an URL. When you quoted it, those tags were omitted because they do not show up in the output text, so the URL was turned into a hyperlink in the quoted version.</p>