Course Objectives
This one day course covers the basic concepts for utilising and customising the map interface, displaying locations, points of interest and pushpins, route finding, plotting data maps, creating territories and drawing and annotating/drawing on maps. The course will include many time-saving shortcuts and techniques designed to increase productivity.
Who Should Attend?
Those who are new to MapPoint and require an introduction to the application and those who have been working with the package already but have not yet tapped its full potential. Some understanding of using a Personal Computer and working in the Windows environment will be expected. The topics covered on our "Introduction to Microsoft Windows" course are an adequate prerequisite for this course.
Course Contents
Finding your way around MapPoint
- The Main Display, Legend, Overview & Toolbars
- Zooming to and Selecting Places and Areas
- Changing map Styles
- Opening and Saving Map Files and Templates
Locations & Pushpins
- Finding Locations, Addresses, Places and Latitudes and Longitudes
- Adding Pushpins and changing the Pushpin symbol
- Moving and Deleting Pushpins
- Hiding and Displaying Pushpin Sets
- Moving Pushpins between Pushpin Sets
Points of Interest
- Show Places, Find Nearby Places
- Points of Interest Collections
Route Finding
- Creating a Route
- Working with Multiple Waypoints
- Cost and Fuel Estimates
- Optimizing your Route
- Times and Rest Stops
- Avoiding Areas
Plotting Data Maps
- Dataset Types
- Plotting Demographic Data
- Importing Data from Microsoft Excel, Access and text files
- Linking to Data
Territories
- Creating Territories from Existing Data
- Creating and Editing Territories
Drawing & Annotation
- Drawing Circles, Ellipses, Rectangles, Lines, Arrows, Text Boxes, Scribble and Freeform Shapes
- Setting the Drawing Attributes
- Overlaying Shapes with Z Order
- Highlighting Objects
Using MapPoint Output
- Using the Clipboard
- Printing MapPoint Maps
- Export to Excel
- Creating Web Pages
- Embedding MapPoint Maps
