Home & Office Filing For Dummies!

We all have some sort of filing regime at home or at work, it can come in many forms, some better than other, but we all have some sort of ‘order’. There are the ‘organised mess’ folk who use what are called ‘paper heaps’ to ‘organise’ their paperwork. This form of filing is rather dishevelled looking and can be very difficult to work with when searching for individual documents, still, it’s easy to file! There are the hoarding type who have numerous filing cabinets storing decades of paperwork ‘just in case’ where really what they could use is a shredder! Then you have the opposite ruthless type who open it – read it – then bin it; no document is safe in these hands, although their offices are very tidy! Last but not least (and we should all be taking a leaf out of these people books) we have the organised folk who appreciate the benefit of an organised paperwork system. Now I know many of you will be thinking, “yeah, yeah, but I haven’t got the time”, or “I can’t be bothered”, but trust me, a little effort will surely reap rewards! If you have your filing in order, then you know where all your documents can be found. When you need to find a document and you need to find it quick, you’ll know exactly which file to pull out and where precisely you will find it. One of our favourite (and oldest) forms of filing is with manila wallets.

As they come in various colours and mostly in packs of assorted colours filing couldn’t be simpler. Each coloured wallet can represent a different category of filing. Choose categories such as 2009-2010, 2010-2011, or use them to file alphabetically, say one file for all the customers whose first initial begins with ‘A’, another for those beginning with ‘B’, or even a folder for A-G customers, then G-N and so on. At home you could have a separate folder for all your utility bills and important documents. However you decide to use them, they’re practically priceless, what’s more, they stack up neatly and nicely on a shelf too, ready for quick access.

Here at Office 365 we have various premium quality and value manila wallets from many reputable brands each made from heavyweight manila. Available in weights such as 250gsm, 285gsm, 290gsm, 300gsm, 315gsm and document capacities of 28mm 32mm, 38mm, 50mm and 600mm, our manila wallets are available in an assortment of colours too! Choose from red, buff, blue, yellow, pink, green, orange, lilac and more. Document wallets are great for many purposes, not just for your filing, they provide protection when storing your paper files, printouts and other documents and are made from card material which has been recycled too! So if you’d like to start a more organised filing system in your office, why not give them a try?!