Legal vs Letter Size Paper — The Whole Difference in 80 Seconds

Legal versus letter. Here's the whole difference in one breath.

Letter is eight and a half by eleven. Legal is eight and a half by fourteen — same width, three inches longer. That's it.

The same width is why the mistake happens. Legal paper fits a letter binder's rings — it just hangs out the bottom, three inches at a time.

Who still uses legal? Real estate closings, deeds and leases, and some county courts — but most courts have standardized on letter. Check the local rule before you print.

Those three inches cost more than they look. Legal needs its own tray, its own folders, its own cabinets — and about twenty-seven percent more paper.

And if the documents are legal size, the tab dividers should be too — a letter divider in a legal binder protects nothing past eleven inches.

Tabzoola die-cuts both. Letter sets price instantly online; legal sets are quoted at the plant, usually the same business day.

The full comparison is at tabzoola dot com — linked below.