Help--Tabs dont fit my binders!

[Lesley S]

Ok--so I had posted awhile ago looking for help in naming my tabs--well I finally decided, made them on the computer and printed them out. I went to put the tabs in the binder and realized they dont reach out far enough to see the tabs past the pages---eeek!

Anyone else had this problem?


I have quite a few pages and they are all in page protectors so needles to say my binders are fat--but there has got to be tabs that fit bigger binders...anyone?? HELP?? All this work and now I cant put them all together! I glanced at some others at the store and they all looked to be the same size.

[JackieM]

Um, I use dividers similar to these, but they don't stick out past the edge of the pages. So I use Post-It's tab stickies to extend the tab beyond the edge of the binder pages.

Some office stores sell extra-wide dividers, but my experience has been that they're TOO wide; like they really fit a 12x12 scrapbook album, not a 8.5x11 binder ...

[MothertheMother]

I don't put articles in sheet protectors so I don't have this problem. I think if you find some that will stick out far enough to go past the sheet protectors they also go past your binder edges when it is shut. The only solution I can think of is to get the stick on variety (they come in a small bag/box usually hanging with other things like paper clips etc) that you peel and stick onto a page in your binder. You could print your separater pages onto regular card stock and put those into a sheet protector and stick the divider tabs on the outside of the sheet protector.

[KristinDoula]

I put all my pages in sheet protectors, too. It's just easier to flip through that way, and they look nicer, IMO. Plus they stay nice longer.

What I did for the tabs was just slice as much of the edge of a sheet protector as needed for each tabs page and slide the tab page into a sheet protector, too. The part that was cut open I just stapled back down after putting my page in. HTH!

[DoulaCBE]

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Originally Posted by KristinDoula I put all my pages in sheet protectors, too. It's just easier to flip through that way, and they look nicer, IMO. Plus they stay nice longer. What I did for the tabs was just slice as much of the edge of a sheet protector as needed for each tabs page and slide the tab page into a sheet protector, too. The part that was cut open I just stapled back down after putting my page in. HTH!

Smacks self in forehead!

Now why didn't I think of that!??

[Cherylkind]

I cut slits too... but I didn't need to staple anything... I only cut where it would stick out, not along the whole edge.

[KristinDoula]

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Originally Posted by Cherylkind I cut slits too... but I didn't need to staple anything... I only cut where it would stick out, not along the whole edge.

Then how did you get them IN?