Owbist: I asked because I think I should know how to create a zip file. When I was troubleshooting issues on the my laptop and my daughters, it seems that folks helping me asked for zip files of various logs. So this xmarks situation isn't the first time I've been asked for a zip file. Best to know how to do it. Zep - you jogged my memory to remember that previously I was able to right click and send to zip file because in both cases I was on a Windows 7 computer. Now I know how to do it for XP. Doable, but certainly not as simple and elegant as Windows 7. Thanks everyone. Lynn.

DH and I have the paper organization divided. I keep the things like manuals, kid's papers, health insurance, etc. in small hanging folder baskets on top of a bookshelf. DH keeps track of monthly bills and investments, etc. He has a cubbie hole system on top of one of his desks and items are divided up into those cubbies. That way he can easily find a current bill, the stack of donation places when we review in December, etc. We each have home office spaces in this house, but in our previous house I just kept things on the top of the cabinet in the formal dining room. It wasn't pretty, but it was easy to use. We keep no paper in the kitchen. Paper and kitchen counters just don't mix for us. DH use to open the mail and then restack it right next to the stove. Harping on him didn't change that, so I gave him a couple of warnings that anything paper piled on my counters would be trashed. I told him that I didn't keep my pots and pans stacked on his desk, so using the food prep space for paperwork was making my life difficult. After having me throw away all of the bills and everything else in the pile, he finally decided he could make the effort to walk a few steps and put it elsewhere. We are not really filers. More specifically, organized pilers. Our files are things which we rarely need. My piles hang, his piles are cubbies. Works for us right now. Gloria

Tom999, I think you suggest exactly what I am interested in. I need heavy Pandaflex-style rails that I can cut to length and mount in my wooden lateral file drawers in my study. The ones that were installed by my cabinet maker are too flimsy and wobble distressingly every time I move the drawer, now that they're full of stuff. I want something beefy. The span is 26 inches. I've searched Rocker and Baer supply web sites per your suggestions without success, probably because I don't know the right buzz words to use. Can you help? I live in Northern California, near San Jose.

Oh--photo print paper, etc.! I do this in a drawer intended for files--I just put some hanging folders in there, and set the paper in the folders. But that does raise the stuff in the folders up a little, and some of the outer cardboard envelopes of the sticky labels, etc., do come close to the top of the drawer. If you think that might happen to you, then just get one of those "desk sorter" or "vertical sorter," or a "pot lid rack" to go in the bottom. That will keep them from flopping over, and make it easy to pull them out. (though, some of those 'desk sorter' things are themselves raised up a bit at the bottom; if that bottom platform is very high you might have a problem, so get one w/ the flattest platform possible. Or you could cut some foam board or mat board about 4 inches too wide for the drawer, score it two inches from each end, then fold it to make a flap on each end, and then staple-gun the flaps to the walls of the drawer. That will keep the envelopes from flopping around. Just make the divider a couple of inches shorter that the drawer.