Brief Tutorial - Opening Archives

Click on each tutorial topic, in sequence, to learn all about WinZip®:

$image\B-U.gif$ 1. Introducing WinZip	$image\B-U.gif$ 2. The WinZip Window	$image\B-D.gif$ 3. Opening Archives
$image\B-U.gif$ 4. Viewing Files	$image\B-U.gif$ 5. Extracting Files	$image\B-U.gif$ 6. Creating New Archives
$image\B-U.gif$ 7. Adding Files	$image\B-U.gif$ 8. Deleting Files	$image\B-U.gif$ 9. Custom Configurations
$image\B-U.gif$ 10. Additional Features

The first step is to open an archive. Use the Open toolbar button or select Open Archive from the WinZip File pull-down menu to activate the standard Open Archive dialog box.

Then, select the archive you want to open in the Open Archive dialog box. This dialog box works just like the Open dialog boxes in other applications: just select the file you want to open from the list of files. (If you want to create an archive instead of working with an existing archive, see the section Brief Tutorial - Creating New Archives).

Once an existing archive is open you can extract or work with the files in the archive. The files in an archive are listed in a list box in the main WinZip window.

You can look at all the file names, with details, stored in the archive, using the scroll bar, arrow keys or usual Windows commands.
You can quickly sort the main window by clicking once on the header (e.g. click on "Name" in the header above the list of files to sort the list by filename).