"Quote message in reply?" in "Post Quick Reply"

[yazoo123]

I'm rather newbie in mastering all the features and functions in posting a response. My quick question is:

The checkbox of "Quote message in reply?" in "Options" Boxis always disabled when i try to submit a "Post Quick Reply". how could it be enabled??

In the toolbar of "message", i could see an "Wrap [QUOTE] tags around selected text" icon and i've tried it successfully by manually "copy & paste", the text i like to quote from previous members' text, into the message box.

But i have seen other members' quotes start with "Originally Posted by User Name" followed by a "view post" icon and the quote message is in italic.

So is it any shortcut for me to include the quotes of others just like others could or I have to do some sort of customization to enable the full "Quote" feature??

Please advise. Many thanks.