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I've also seen a similar topic not so long ago. Its trivial information, but too much work to use.

There are still some thing that this trick could not actually do. Based on your tutorial, in order to quote a locked topic you should copy and paste its contents then what you will only got is the plain text of the locked thread. You won't be able to quote it's image, text format (Bold, Italic, underline, strike through, color, font style and font size), text alignments (center, left,), table, list, horizontal line, quoted reply, and text with links unless you do it manually which will take some time.

That's the reason why you're the opposite of your username. You don't even use "Search" in the forum.

Oh I'm sorry you're just a newbie. Maybe you just don't know what it looks like and where it is located. Just look at the top right area of the forum, it should look like this