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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Yes, I also copy most of the contents of the web page and paste it as unformatted text into a MS-Word document. Then I delete what I do not need, and format the document with headings, bullets/numbers, and what ever else to make it easier to follow. How I format the document depends on how I plan to read it when working on a project. I might use my computer and read the MS-Word doc, or copy the contents of the MS-Word doc into the body of an e-mail that I send to myself so that I can read it on my phone while out and about, or I might copy the MS-Word doc over to my NLS braille display, or I might write out the pattern in braille on index cards held together on a metal ring.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>HTH,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Annette<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeanette Kutash via NFB-Blind-Crafters<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 14, 2026 9:28 AM<br><b>To:</b> nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Jeanette Kutash <kutash-jm@comcast.net>; nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] Dealing with freepatterns full of ads<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tracy, I do the same as you. I find it is the easiest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from Jeanette Kutash's iPhone<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ZZ Z<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Aug 13, 2026, at 8:58\u202fAM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters <<a href="mailto:nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org">nfb-blind-crafters@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>\ufeff<span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I\u2019ve been grabbing free patterns off the internet. All of them have ads, and often ads that make the screen change regularly and change where I am in the text. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>My solution is to select a lot of the webpage, copy it to the clipboard, then paste it into a Notepad file. I use Windows. Then I go through the file and take out all the stuff I don\u2019t want. It takes a little while, but it doesn\u2019t jump around, and I know I want the file on my PC anyway. It does take out any links to videos, but I\u2019m not big on videos anyway, and I can always go back to the webpage if I need to.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>How do other people handle patterns on the internet?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tracy</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>_______________________________________________<br>NFB-Blind-Crafters mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NFB-Blind-Crafters@nfbnet.org">NFB-Blind-Crafters@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFB-Blind-Crafters:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org/kutash-jm%40comcast.netTracy">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-blind-crafters_nfbnet.org/kutash-jm%40comcast.netTracy</a>,<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></body></html>