Sunday, July 12, 2009

How to Staple a Booklet Using a Regular Stapler

If you ever find yourself needing to staple a booklet but don’t have a proper long-arm stapler, you can do it with a regular stapler as follows:
  1. Find two books of equal height and place them together, allowing a small gap for the staple to come through (see picture below).
  2. Open the stapler and pound the staple through the booklet, into the gap between the two books.
  3. Flatten the staple legs using a hammer or any hard object.

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    21 comments:

    1. Anonymous12/14/2009 3:01 p.m.

      Thank you so much, you saved me ! :D

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    2. Jonathan12/14/2009 10:03 p.m.

      Ha!

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    3. Baljeet Kaur Samra5/14/2011 10:27 a.m.

      oh my god. amazing!

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    4. Jonathan7/21/2011 7:19 p.m.

      :-)

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    5. nancy_kent11/20/2011 1:55 p.m.

      Thank you so much!! I had to make Safety Booklets for our cub scouts and this was prefect!

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    6. Jonathan11/20/2011 5:57 p.m.

      You're welcome, Nancy!

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    7. Anonymous8/02/2012 11:43 p.m.

      Great, so glad for this solution!

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    8. Anonymous11/19/2012 2:07 a.m.

      Thanks A Million ;)

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    9. Anonymous12/28/2012 8:17 a.m.

      or just staple to a cork board, pull it off the board and flatten the legs.

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    10. Katty1/13/2013 5:40 a.m.

      Thanks so much, this is great! PS - A good knife is ideal to flaten the legs with.

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    11. Anonymous4/13/2013 1:41 a.m.

      Wow this works very nice indeed!

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    12. Anonymous10/03/2013 8:51 a.m.

      For the other side, you can use the other side of the stapler and just push the legs with it on the floor. That way you get the small curvature of the legs :)

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    13. Anonymous11/20/2013 7:41 a.m.

      Thanks. Nice trick.

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    14. Katrin11/26/2013 1:39 a.m.

      Pro tip! Thanks, that's just what I needed. Wrote a post in my blog about it :)

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    15. Unknown2/08/2014 2:22 a.m.

      thank you you rock

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    16. Anonymous2/26/2014 8:38 p.m.

      Thank you! it's effective and cheap.

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    17. Carol6/03/2014 12:34 p.m.

      Thanks! I like the document you used as an example. I came here to figure out how to staple a booklet on the Rite of Eucharistic Exposition. Imagine my surprise. lol!

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    18. Jonathan6/03/2014 7:48 p.m.

      Carol - ha!

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    19. Anonymous9/25/2014 6:53 a.m.

      Works very well!

      Thanks!

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    20. Ronus Cranus9/16/2020 7:05 a.m.

      Thank you so much!! I was working on some booklets on Buddhism and was thinking of buying a big stapler. Your post saved me money and time. Thank you thank you so much 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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    21. Myself Unknown5/06/2024 5:34 a.m.

      That was such a useful trick and tip. Thank you so much.

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