Q: I was wondering what type of application you could recommend I need to email some large excel spreadsheets and need to zip them.

A: There are plenty of programs which you can use for archiving files. If you need ZIP archives you can go with WinZip (you can download shareware version from www.winzip.com) if you need some free program – you can use 7Z (you can find it on http://www.7-zip.org/)