Attachments to letters sent by e-mail are usually archived. Thus, their total size and number are reduced. Our experts tell you how to archive files before sending them by email.
Archive format
E-mails are conducted by people using various operating systems. For this reason, it is best to use the ZIP format for compressing attachments. In Windows, macOS and Linux such archives are opened by default, without installing additional software.
Compressing files
Our experts have chosen as an example Windows as the most common and familiar operating system to users.
Open the folder containing the files to be sent. Select the content with the 'Win + A' keyboard shortcut. Right-click to open the context menu. We expand in it the item indicated by a two. In the nested list of actions, click on the line marked with the number '3'.
The operating system creates a compressed folder that the user can immediately rename. The resulting archive is ready to be sent.
Finally
Our experts told how and in what format to archive files before sending them by email.
