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Home Office Calculators & Tools

Free, practical tools for setting up and organizing a home office — desk and monitor ergonomics, cable planning, filing and storage, scanning resolution, and the numbers behind going paperless.

Desk Height Calculator

Find the right desk, keyboard, and chair heights for your body from standard ergonomic ratios — enter your height and whether you sit or stand.

Monitor Distance Calculator

Get a minimum, ideal, and maximum eye-to-screen viewing distance from your monitor's diagonal size, in inches and centimeters.

Cable Length Planner

Add up the horizontal run, vertical drop, and bends in a cable route, plus slack and connector allowance, to get the standard length to buy.

Label & Storage Planner

Work out how many storage boxes and labels a filing cleanup needs from your total document count and category count.

Scan DPI Selector

Work out the exact scan resolution for a target output size, or get a baseline DPI recommendation by document type.

Paper-to-Digital Savings Calculator

Estimate what going paperless could save in a year — printing costs, filing time, and storage space, minus the cost of cloud storage.