Rapesco0668 Multi-Part Project File, A4, Transparent with Coloured Dividers, Pack of 5

I hate the smooth texture of the plastic used. It feels cheap.I suppose they're functional. They're adequate. Nothing special.It's just massively fiddly.

Well made and so useful with the partitions

...more so with a bit of improvisation, in my case.♦ RAPESCO®♦ 5-PART PROJECT FILE♦ PRODUCT REF: 0668♦ PACK of 5This is a useful pack of 5 x A4 size polypropylene project files.As with all products from RAPESCO® (in my experience), they came impeccably packed in a cardboard box and padded out in a sturdy outer carton for safe transit.Inside, the pack of five are cellophane-wrapped.Each 5-part project file has a BLUE-coloured spine area and back cover, a clear-pocketed front cover, then four different coloured polypropylene divisions that act as tabs:PINK, GREEN, YELLOW & CLEAREmpty, each project file measures around 31 cm x 23.5 cm x 0.75 cm. Each file has a numerical index sheet, 1-5, which could be used as a front sheet.RAPESCO® is embossed on the bottom of the back cover.The 5 x inbuilt plastic fasteners in each file are functional & durable and I use each segment of mine for just a handful of sheets which works well. I strengthen the front pocket with a sheet of thin card, which also hides the contents and keeps safe the various receipts I need to keep together on my travels. The back cover is on the flimsy side but I solved this by putting a piece of cardboard inside as my last page.You can remove the RAPESCO® product detail/advertising strip and use the back of it for labelling, although a bit of patience is required to feed it back through.The spine area isn’t quite wide enough for a label so I have stuck a different coloured spot on each of mine as further identification when they are lined up on the bookshelf.

At work I quite often use the kind of file this is based upon – the ones with a plastic strip near the spine, where you turn both edges of the strip upwards and feed your hole-punched paper onto it – but I have never seen anything like this before. The best way I can describe it is to ask you to imagine one such file opened out, with another different colour file (minus the front cover) glued into the centre, then that again three more times. The edges of each part are then turned into index tabs. The inside of the front cover is a plastic sleeve that opens onto the centre, and there is an A4 printed index template for you to fill out, as well as a pocket for a removable front-cover "spine" card.If you're going for simplicity in your document, maybe this isn't going to be your first choice, but if you do need to present a set of documents in one file, this could well be a stoke of genius. The sections are different colours (red, green, yellow, clear and blue), and the tabs stick out far enough that A4 paper will not overlap them. It's thinner than you would think given the five sets of bindings. It looks good as a file and if you are presenting a report to someone – and especially if that report is divided into five sections – then it actually looks as if you have put serious thought into the choice of folder. I know I'd be impressed to receive it. And I know I can put these files to good use.

I haven't found these to be as useful as I thought I would.What you get is a thin plastic file with thin plastic pages that double as dividers. Each divided section has a fastener to hold hole-punched papers.The file itself comes flat so it's hard to know if it will fatten up adequately to store enough pages for your project. Even if you are able to stuff a lot of pages into each section but there is no elastic strap or anything to hold the binder closed. The covers are floppy vinyl and they'll flap around.The concept is missing several components to make it properly useful:- It needs a stiffer front and back cover- It needs a fixed and shaped spine because as the file fills up with paper, the papers are all going to curve at the spine because without a spine, they are crowded into a V-shaped flat spine when it should be a U-shaped defined spine (hope that makes sense!)- It needs the sections more defined so we can see how much paper can fit into each one- It needs an elastic strap to hold the file closed when it is full- It needs a pocket for unpunched items for your project. Buying punched plastic paper holders defeats the purpose for a file so thin.Summary: Personally I don't like it but it could be a convenient way to hold papers if you're not planning to have too many in each section. The papers must be hole-punched or they'll fall out.

A set of five sturdy plastic project files. Each file has five separate colour coded sections, divided by plastic file divider sheets.The file uses the same folding plastic prong system as standard plastic document wallets to hold the paperwork securely. Papers can be independently inserted in to each section, so that unlike ring binder files there is no need to flip the whole contents of the file from one ring to another to insert a page. Previously when using project files I have written on the card dividers - that isn't possible with these unless a label is stuck on.There is a pre-printed 1-5 numbered card insert in the cover to indicate what is in each part but a new sheet will be needed if the file is re-used.The obvious disadvantage with this is that your project has to have five sections for maximum use to be made of this file. The construction is such that individual sections can't be inserted or taken out.Like document wallets, the inner edge of the cover has a pocket containing a slip of paper which can be taken out and written on to indicate the contents. Getting the slip back in is always a challenge. It has Rapesco branding on the one side so has to be completely taken out to be written on.They are a good, space saving alternative to conventional ring binder files, though not a perfect solution.