Editing Paper size (section)

====Variant American loose sizes<span class="anchor" id="Government Letter"></span>====

There is an additional paper size, {{cvt|8|×|10+1/2|inch|abbr=|round=5}}, to which the name ''Government-Letter'' was given by the [[IEEE]] [[Printer Working Group]] (PWG).<ref name="PWG"/> It was prescribed by [[Herbert Hoover]] when he was [[Secretary of Commerce]] to be used for US government forms, apparently to enable discounts from the purchase of paper for schools, but more likely due to the standard use of trimming books (after binding) and paper from the standard letter size paper to produce consistency and allow "bleed" printing. In later years, as photocopy machines proliferated, citizens wanted to make photocopies of the forms, but the machines did not generally have this size of paper in their bins. [[Ronald Reagan]] therefore had the US government switch to regular Letter size, which is half an inch both longer and wider.<ref name="US"/> The former government size is still commonly used in spiral-bound [[notebook]]s, for children's writing and the like, a result of trimming from the current Letter dimensions.

<span class="anchor" id="Statement"></span><span class="anchor" id="Stationery"></span><span class="anchor" id="Memo"></span><span class="anchor" id="Half-Letter"></span><span class="anchor" id="Half-A"></span>
By extension of the American standards, the halved Letter size, {{cvt|5+1/2|×|8+1/2|inch|abbr=|round=5}}, meets the needs of many applications. It is variably known as ''Statement'', ''Stationery'', ''Memo'', ''Half Letter'', ''Half A'' (from ANSI sizes) or simply ''Half Size'', and as ''Invoice'' by printer manufacturers.<ref name="PWG"/> Like the similar-sized ISO A5, it is used for everything from personal letter writing to official aeronautical maps. Organizers, notepads, and diaries also often use this size of paper; thus 3-ring [[binders]] are also available in this size. Booklets of this size are created using word processing tools with landscape printing in two columns on letter paper which are then cut or folded into the final size.

A foot-long sheet with the common width of Letter and (Government) Legal, i.e. {{cvt|8+1/2|x|12|inch|abbr=|round=5}}, would have an aspect ratio very close to the square root of two as used by international paper sizes and would actually almost exactly match [[ISO 217|ISO RA4]] (215&nbsp;mm × 305&nbsp;mm). This size is sometimes known as ''European Fanfold''.<ref name="PWG"/>

<span class="anchor" id="Executive"></span>
While ''Executive'' refers to {{cvt|7+1/4|×|10+1/2|inch|abbr=|round=5}} in America, the Japanese organization for standardization specified it  as {{cvt|216|×|330|mm|abbr=}}, which is elsewhere known as Government Legal or Foolscap.