Imagine this scenario - ‘Your using a cafe computer and you need to urgently convert that odp file your boss gave you, into a ppt file to email to a client. The computer you are using does not allow you to install any software. What do you do?’

If you were ever stuck in that kind of a situation, you need not fear, ZamZar has the solution. With ZamZar your new file format is just 3 steps away! Choose the file you want to convert, select the format you want to convert it into, enter your email address and press Convert. You’ll have your new converted file sent across to you within seconds.

Zamzar is dedicated to helping you transform your songs, videos, images and documents into different formats. Their goal - “To provide high quality file conversion for as many file formats as possible”, and thats exactly what they have done.

“We are intent on bringing order to your filesystem by offering you a one stop solution for all your file conversion needs. Like others we were fed up with having files in all sorts of formats, and no easy way of converting between them - the quest to find a better way led to the birth of Zamzar.”

Zamzar can convert from CSV (Comma Separated Values), to the following formats:

• doc - Microsoft Word Document
• html - Hypertext Markup Language
• mdb - Microsoft Access Database
• ods - OpenDocument spreadsheet
• pdf - Portable Document Format
• rtf - Rich text format
• xls - Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
• xml - Extensible Markup Language

Zamzar can not only convert your documents, but also your images, music and video files as well. For a complete list of file formats Zamzar can convert to, refer to their Conversions Types page.

How To Convert Your Files
Okay, so now your ready to convert a file, but just how do you go about doing it? Its fairly simple really,

1. Visit Zamzar.com
2. They have neatly labelled the steps in bold. Follow up to where it says Step 1 and choose the file you want to convert.
3. Next, choose the file format you want Zamzar to convert your file into.
4. Enter your email address. Be sure to enter a valid email address since Zamzar will use this to send the converted file for download to.
5. Press the Convert button and wait for Zamzar to do the job for you!
6. Check your email, you should have received the file in there. Download it and, well thats it!

After going through all this, you may be pondering over the name Zamzar, right? Well, fret not because Zamzar has a solution for everything!

The name “Zamzar” is based on a character from the Bohemian author Franz Kafka’s book “The Metamorphosis”. In the novel Kafka describes the extraordinary story of a young man who is transformed whilst sleeping into a gigantic insect.

The man’s name - Gregor Samsa - was used as the basis for our company name because of its’ powerful association with change and transformation.

Happy file conversions!