Thanks. I just got WinZip and haven't quite learned it yet, but I will try to zip a file and send it to him if I can figure it out.
JK
Once you install WinZip, it's real easy.
In Window's Explorer (or in WinZip itself, but to me, it's easier just to use Window's Explorer):
Navigate to the folder where your Win500 files are stored.
(In my case, I have a folder, labeled 'files', as a sub-folder of the Win500 folder.)
<Right> click on the file you want to zip & attach.
You'll get a Windows pop-up menu. You'll have the standard choices- Open, Copy, Move to, Send to, Delete, (probably a scan option for your anti-virus), several others.
You should also see two related to WinZip:
One will say "Add to Zip" (that actually just starts WinZip)
The other is the one you want. It should say "Add to "xxxxx.zip", where "xxxxx", without the quotes, is the name, without extension, of the file you clicked on.
Example- If I right click on my Win500 file labeled "DFW Metro.p500", then, when the pop-up appeared, I chose "Add to DFW Metro.zip" (quotes added only for illustration), WinZip would would then create a file, by that name, within the same folder.
If you choose the "Add to zip" option instead (no file name), and started WinZip, you'd then have to specify what zip file to add the file to, or choose create a new one from the WinZip. It's quicker to to it the other way, unless you're going to be combining several files. If that were the case, you could simply highlight them all first, then right click.
Whichever way you choose to zip the file, once that's done, just attach to your email message as normal. As long as your friend has WinZip, or a program capable of unzipping the file (it's a standard format), it'll work fine.
