Overview

Designed for everyday business use, Microsoft MapPoint allows Microsoft Office users of any skill level, in any size organization, to easily visualize their business information, communicate key data using maps and integrate maps into the work they do in Office. MapPoint is a unique business-mapping program that combines powerful mapping and analysis tools with the simplicity of Microsoft Office, enabling people to see how location makes a difference to their business.

Benefits

• Pinpoint exact customer or business sites on the map throughout the US and Canada. Full address searching available over 6 million miles of road for U.S. and Canada. MapPoint Europe with maps of 11 Western European countries available separately.
• Create maps with your own data. Step-by-step instructions guide you on how to apply your sales information, and demographic variables to a variety of map types. Make your map look how you want by defining data range, legend label and ramp color palette. New this year, associate more data to a map by adding pie and column charts to maps.
• Get address-to-address driving directions. MapPoint will calculate optimized routes based on imported addresses. New this year, turn simple routes into an analysis tool by generating drive-time zones to/from a specified location(s).
• Import customer, and contact information from Microsoft Excel, Access or Outlook to create a map of their locations. New this year, create your own pushpin icons and use them on your data maps. Or choose multiple symbols that best represent a series of data.
• Create maps that group common areas and overlay key information to these regions.
• Increased integration with other Office applications, including access points that make basic mapping function easier to use. MapPoint also supports data importation from Access, Excel, Outlook or any SQL Server database.

Features

What's New

Charts On Maps
Associate more data to a map by adding pie and column charts to maps.

Territories
Create maps that group common areas and overlay information relative to the regions.

Custom and Multisymbol Pushpins
Create your own pushpin icons and use them on your data maps. Or choose multiple symbols that best represent a series of data.

Smart Tags
Helpful cues in Excel 2002 and Word 2002 that indicate to the user that they can use MapPoint to enhance their business data.

Office Add-Ins
Easy access points from Office applications that open basic mapping functions like data mapping, or address find.

Improved Features

Automation support
Automate map capabilities into customer created Office solutions. MapPoint2002 supports a more robust object model based on the familiar Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

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