How can there NOT be hanging folders for 11x17 paper?

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kranky

kranky

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Look through any office supply catalog, you'll see hundreds of products that seem rather redundant. The sheer number of different pens is astounding. Dozens and dozens of variants of notepads.

So why is there no such thing as hanging folders for 11x17 paper? I can't believe nobody makes them. They make 14x18 hanging folders! Why not 11x17?

I'll live without them, it just amazes me that they don't exist.
 
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spidey07

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They absolutely exist. Called Legal size. I'm looking at many drawers of them at my desk.
 
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AC.hotfries said:
legal is not 11x17.

legal = 8.5 x 14
ledger = 11 x 17
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DOH! You're right.

For 11x17 I normally do the fold. Fold it in half vertically, then fold half of that back so you still see most of the doc, but it's now in 8x11 size.
 
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KidNiki1

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kranky said:
They are 14x18. Too big. I guess that's why they call them oversized, but it's not a good solution. Like saying my backpack is really an iPhone case, just oversized. :)
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ummmm, the folder has a little extra on the sides and top and bottom to allow for space.

go look at a hanging file folder for 8 x 11 paper. the actual file itself it NOT 8 x 11

its 9.5 x 11.75

14 x 18 is the size you want the folder to be


edit: i just noticed you saw the 14 x 18 folders in your op. either i got trolled, or you dont understand how file folder sizing works.
 
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kranky

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AC.hotfries said:
ummmm, the folder has a little extra on the sides and top and bottom to allow for space.

go look at a hanging file folder for 8 x 11 paper. the actual file itself it NOT 8 x 11

its 9.5 x 11.75

14 x 18 is the size you want the folder to be
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Unfortunately, they won't fit in the file cabinet I have. If they were oversized the same amount as the letter size (which would make them 12.5 x 17.75), it would be OK. The extra 1.5 inches on the shorter dimension is a deal breaker.

I actually have the 14x18 ones, the office supply keeper bought them for me when I asked for 11x17.

I suppose if I was desperate enough I could cut the folders down to a smaller size and tape the bottoms back together, but not worth the effort.
 
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LTC8K6 said:
Lots of stuff is still required to be on actual paper...
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Yeah....sucks.

Hopefully some day we'll have decent e-paper that'll be easily writable - or else support voice dictation. (That actually works. I don't want to have to be yelling slowly at my paper through a headset microphone.)


Paper is just horrifically inefficient at data storage when compared to something like a hard drive.

I had it in another thread, but here it is too:
8.5x11" = 93.5in²
Seagate's got a drive that can do 625 gigabits per square inch.
So if that piece of paper has less than 7,304,687,500,000 characters on each side, it's wasting space.
(I know, I know, a portion of that 625gb is taken up by parity data. Fine. So maybe the paper only needs to hold 5,000,000,000,000 characters.)
And let's not forget that plain text files tend to compress quite well. :) I just did a compression test of an Internet-generated "lorem ipsum" sequence. 92kB of raw text. ZIP: 25kB. RAR: 16kB, which includes 1% recovery data.
 
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