WinZip for Beginners with CDROM (Beginners Series) [Paperback]

Brian Howard (Author)

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Newcomers to the online world usually figure out the mechanics of surfing and e-mail pretty quickly, but file downloads can remain confounding for some time. Newbies who want to pick files from the online orchard need to know what a Zip file is and how to use one. WinZip for Beginners answers their questions, explaining how to get WinZip, how to install it, and how to use it to compress and extract files. This is a real service, because WinZip, even with its new wizard-based interface, isn't terribly intuitive.

Author Brian Howard documents WinZip 6.3 fully, explaining the purpose of every button, check box, radio button, and selection list. He organizes his documentation by task, with chapters devoted to key WinZip procedures, such as creating new Zip files, adding files to existing Zip files, and extracting and creating self-extracting Zip files. He wraps up with a discussion of disk spanning, a supremely useful feature that enables you to use more than one removable disk to hold a single large Zip file.

WinZip for Beginners comes complete with a copy of WinZip's evaluation edition on its companion CD-ROM and explains how to use WinZip in an easy-to-follow graphical format. In fact, following the book's procedures is similar to reading a comic strip; big arrows show sequences in which windows appear and leave little doubt about what happens and when.

This is an excellent explanatory text that will prove useful for those who are unclear on how to use WinZip.

Product Details

• Paperback: 149 pages
• Publisher: Abacus Publishing Company (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557553394
• ISBN-13: 978-1557553393
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,227,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice book but out of date, January 20, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: WinZip for Beginners with CDROM (Beginners Series) (Paperback)

This is a nice little book. However, its coverage ends at WinZip 6.3 and WinZip 8.1 is now the standard. Still, if all that you want to do is learn how to zip and unzip files, it will help get the job done.

5.0 out of 5 stars An Essential Guide For Sharing Data Online!, November 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: WinZip for Beginners with CDROM (Beginners Series) (Paperback)

     Have you ever wondered why it use to take so long to download a program or another file off the Internet, an online service, or a BBS? The Internet has presented many challenges to software, hardware, and communications engineers over the years. Among them are file size, bandwidth, and the speeds involved in uploading and downloading a variety of file types. The compression of files has been an important factor in the success of the Internet.      Brian Howard has written WinZip for Beginners to offer members of the online community valuable information about the operation and use of the most popular data compression program available today. WinZip has been a fixture in the computing industry for a number of years, providing reliable compression and management of files. Readers are presented with an insightful overview of the compression process and shown why the technology that has been incorporated into WinZip is important for successful online communications as well as for general computing use.      The author provides an excellent examination and presentation of this leading program. Installation, setup, options, and general operation are covered. Readers are also shown how to put WinZip to use, such as for preparing files for transferring online, creating e-mail attachments, and copying files onto diskettes and other storage media devices. The CD that accompanies the book includes the latest shareware edition of WinZip. It can be put to immediate use!      This fully illustrated book will educate and prepare hobbyists and online businesses alike, helping them to make more effective and productive use of their time, effort, and money. This is an essential book for anyone seriously involved with the use of the Internet. Information sharing will be a Zip!