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Viewing Files Inside Archives In WinZip:
There is a feature in WinZip that allows you to view the contents of a file in a manner that is similar to opening the file in its application. This allows users to quickly access the files upon opening the archive so that they do not have to spend time opening the file through the application or Windows Explorer.

To view the contents of files in WinZip, you must do one of the following:

1.) Click on the Actions Menu on the menu bar, and select View, or
2.) Click on the View Button on the toolbar.

Once you have completed one of the above tasks, the View dialog window will appear. In the View window, you are presented with several radio buttons: Associated Program, Internal ASCII text viewer, or another Viewer such as Notepad, or another application. For this step, you probably want to select the Associated Program so that the file is opened in its native application.

When you've made your selection for how you want to view the file contents, then click on the View Button in the View dialog box. The file now appears.

Using WinZip's Checkout Feature:
Another useful feature available in WinZip is the Checkout feature, which can be seen on the toolbar as the Folder with an arrow coming out of it with a Program Group. This feature allows you to not only extract the contents of your archive to a folder, and create a Program Group for it.

To use the Checkout feature, follow either one of these two steps:

1.) Click on the Actions Menu on the menu bar, and select Checkout, or
2.) Click on the Checkout Button on the toolbar.

At this point, the Checkout dialog window should appear. In the Checkout window, there are several fields that should already have information in them. They are:

· Folder-The location of the folder that contains your archive.
· Group Name-The name of the Program Group you are creating.
· Maximum Icons-The maximum number of icons that can be in your Program Group.

Below these three fields is a checkbox asking whether or not you would like to create icons for programs and documents only. Leave it in the default mode, which is checked. You can edit the information in the three fields above to configure the Checkout feature to extract files to a specific folder, have any Group Name you'd like for its Program Group, and set the maximum limit for icons in the soon to be created Program Group. Once you have completed that click OK. Upon clicking OK, WinZip will extract the files in your archive.

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