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If you are training in a room with cloth wall coverings, you can
purchase special clips designed for use in modular office
cubicles. They have two long pins on the back that insert into
the cloth and a plastic clip on the front that hangs onto your
flip chart paper or posters. They are available at office supply
Cloth Panel Wall Clips
stores.

Hang Tabs
As an alternative to tape, you can purchase plastic adhesive tabs to affix to the front or
back corners of your pages. Simply peel off the covering and adhere the sticky part to
the paper. These tabs come with a small hole punched in the top center so that you
can either hang the poster by string or with push pins. The tabs are useful if you have
laminated items and want to hang them for display in programs, as they will hold the
additional weight that masking tape sometimes will not.

Corkboard Display Strip
In rooms that you use for training regularly at your organization, there is a more per-
manent means of hanging flip chart pages and other items. You can mount wooden or
metal strips that have corkboard (the same as found on bulletin boards) around the
perimeter of the room at a height of approximately 7 feet. When ready to display items,
use push pins (the kind with the large plastic colored heads) or thumb tacks that you
can get at office, school, and art supply stores.

Multiple Purpose Labels
These handy clear, multicolored, and white labels come in packets of 500 or more, and
in shapes such as large circles, squares, and rectangles. They can be used to substitute
for masking tape when you need to hang a sheet of flip chart paper. Two labels (at least
1
1 ⁄4 inch) at the top of the sheet should be all you need.

Flexible Curve
There is a tool called a “flexible curve” that is used by graphic artists and technicians
who need to be able to draw special shapes (e.g., circles, curves, squares, and so forth).
It is a 24-inch plastic covered, flexible, square metal core that can be bent in virtually
any shape and traced. It is made by Staedtler and can be purchased in office supply
and graphic art supply stores (see Graphic Arts Material in Resources for Trainers in
the appendices). The tool comes in handy when creating a shape on your flip charts
and other written materials. Simply form your shape, lay it against the paper, and trace
around it.