Avery 5366 template
Avery 5366 is a file folder label, not an address label. It is long and shallow, three and seven-sixteenths inches wide by two-thirds of an inch tall, sized to wrap a folder tab.
- 2/3" x 3-7/16" labels
- 30 per sheet
- US Letter
Drawn to scale from the measurements below
Print Avery 5366 labels from a spreadsheet
Set to Avery 5366. Add a list, check the preview, and download a PDF laid out to this sheet.
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The layout has no columns in it, so every label is the same. The starting number fills the rest of one sheet.
In the print dialog choose Actual size (100%). “Fit to page” shrinks the sheet and pushes every label off its cut. The PDF asks your viewer for actual size, but check before you print a full run.
Avery 5366 dimensions
Every measurement of the 30-label sheet, computed from the same data the PDF is drawn from.
- Label size
- 3-7/16" wide × 2/3" tall (87.31 mm × 16.93 mm)
- Labels per sheet
- 30: 2 across, 15 down
- Sheet
- US Letter, 8-1/2" × 11"
- Top and bottom margin
- 1/2" and 1/2" (12.7 mm)
- Left and right margin
- 17/32" and 17/32" (13.49 mm)
- Gap between columns
- 9/16" (14.29 mm)
- Gap between rows
- none (rows touch)
- Horizontal and vertical pitch
- 4" and 2/3"
Geometry source: LibreOffice label database, Avery Letter Size 5366 (2 x 15, 4in x 0.6667in pitch) (labels.xml). Avery 8366, Avery 6466 have identical measurements, so a PDF made for one prints on the others.
Check the fit before you print on labels. Print the blank template on plain paper, hold it against a sheet of Avery 5366 up to the light, and check the boxes land on the cuts. Worth doing with any template on any printer: paper size, driver margins and scaling all shift a sheet. It matters more here: these measurements come from an open label-template database and are checked arithmetically on every build, and the same database reproduces this site’s paper-verified Avery 5160 layout exactly, but Avery 5366 itself has not yet been measured against real stock.
Values for Word’s Label Options
Mailings › Labels › Options › New Label, if Avery 5366 is not in Word’s list.
| Top margin | 0.50" |
|---|---|
| Side margin | 0.53" |
| Vertical pitch | 0.67" |
| Horizontal pitch | 4.00" |
| Label height | 0.67" |
| Label width | 3.44" |
| Number across | 2 |
| Number down | 15 |
| Page size | Letter (8.5" × 11") |
Word works in hundredths of an inch, so these are rounded; the PDF from this page uses the exact values above.
Why is Avery 5366 shaped so differently?
Avery 5366 is long and shallow because a manila folder tab is a narrow strip. A label for it has to be wide enough to hold a readable title and short enough not to overhang, which is why the 5366 is proportioned so differently from the address formats.
The sheet holds thirty in two columns of fifteen, with wide side margins, over half an inch on each edge, and rows that butt directly against each other. It looks sparse next to a 5160 because the labels are packed vertically and inset horizontally.
What is Avery 5366 used for?
Avery 5366 is for filing systems: client files, case files, patient records, project folders, archive boxes. Anywhere a physical cabinet needs consistent, legible tabs that were not handwritten.
The typical source data is a two-column spreadsheet, a reference code and a name, which maps cleanly onto two lines. Some people print the code larger than the name so it reads from across a room; per-line sizing handles that.
How do I print Avery 5366 labels from a spreadsheet?
To print Avery 5366 labels, add your list in the tool on this page and keep the layout to two lines, the practical maximum at two-thirds of an inch. The tool will fit three, but the type drops small enough that it defeats the purpose of labeling a folder.
Barcode mode is available but tight here: there is only room for a short symbol and one caption line. If you are barcoding an archive, a taller format such as the 5163 gives a far more reliable scan.
How do I make a drawer of Avery 5366 labels easy to read?
Avery 5366 labels are read edge-on, at an angle, in a drawer where thirty of them are visible at once. That is a different reading problem from an envelope, and it rewards consistency far more than it rewards detail.
Put the part that distinguishes one folder from its neighbors at the start of the line, not the end. A drawer of labels all beginning "Project — " and differing in the last two words is genuinely hard to scan by eye; the same labels with the distinguishing word first are easy.
Sort the spreadsheet into the order the folders will sit in before printing. Labels come off the sheet in reading order, so a sorted list means you can peel and apply straight down the drawer without hunting, which on a few hundred folders saves a surprising amount of time.
Other label sheets
Sizes, uses and a full comparison are in the label template index.