Exhibit 24

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned officers
and directors of Officemax, Inc., an Ohio corporation (the "Registrant"), hereby
constitutes and appoints Michael Feuer, Jeffrey P. Freimark and Ross H. Pollock,
or any one of those, as true and lawful attorney or attorneys-in-fact for the
undersigned, with full power of substitution and revocation, for him or her and
in his or her name, place and stead, to sign on his or her behalf as an officer
or director of the Registrant a Registration Statement or Registration
Statements on Form S-8 pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 concerning certain
Common Shares of the Company to be offered in connection with the Company's 2001
Amended and Restated Equity-Based Award Plan (As Amended November 8, 2001), and
to sign any and all amendments or post-effective amendments to such Registration
Statement(s), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other
documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission
or any state regulatory authority, granting unto said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform
each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

         This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each
of which shall be deemed an original with respect to the person executing it.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of
the 8th day of November, 2001.




/s/ Michael Feuer                            /s/ James F. McCann
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    Michael Feuer                                James F. McCann
    Chairman of the Board, Chief                 Director
    Executive Officer and Director
    (principal executive officer)

/s/ Jeffrey P. Freimark                      /s/ Sydell L. Miller
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    Jeffrey P. Freimark                          Sydell L. Miller
    Senior Executive Vice President and          Director
    Chief Financial Officer (principal
    financial and accounting officer)

/s/ Raymond L. Bank                          /s/ Jerry Sue Thornton
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    Raymond L. Bank                              Jerry Sue Thornton
    Director                                     Director

/s/ Burnett W. Donoho                        /s/ Ivan J. Winfield
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    Burnett W. Donoho                            Ivan J. Winfield
    Director                                     Director

/s/ Philip D. Fishbach
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    Philip D. Fishbach
    Director