Microsoft MapPoint 2006 Standard Edition
Microsoft MapPoint 2006 helps business users to visualize, analyze, and communicate data. It includes updated geographic and demographic data, plus text and voice-prompted driving guidance. Make it easier for organizations to visualize their business in a whole new way. Getting to meetings and customers is easy; just plug it into your laptop and go!
Microsoft MapPoint 2006 Standard Edition Accessories
 MapPoint 2002 for Dummies (With CD-ROM)
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 UPGRADE
Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 [OLD VERSION]
Microsoft Visio Standard 2007
Microsoft MapPoint 2006 with GPS
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional [OLD VERSION]
Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.0 [OLD VERSION]
Microsoft Office Professional 2007 FULL VERSION
QuickBooks Pro 2008 [OLD VERSION]
Microsoft Project Standard 2007
Microsoft MapPoint 2006 Standard Edition Reviews
There is little control over shades I have a choice of sixteen colors for my group of shaded countries. For my simple purposes, this program is unusable. The map is labeled not only by country names but also by certain states in the United States. That's it and oddly, none of them are colors I would willingly choose. There is no way to turn off this labeling. All I want is a political map of the world with a group of 60 countries on it shaded.
Once I began defining the territories, using the US census geographic unit, my system crashed. I am very unhappy with this purchase. Currently I am able to use about half of the functionality. I was not even halfway through the process. Microsoft's suggestions were to uninstall and reinstall but this did not fix the problem.
At a lower zoom level, my pushpins overlap and are unreadable. I wanted to print the whole territory at a certain zoom level to allow veiwing of all the pushpins without overlap onto however many pages it takes. This is not possible.
If you want to print your whole map, you literally have to save your screen view into a graphic file, scroll to the next area, save it as well and repeat until you have saved your entire territory. Once you have saved the whole map in peices, you can print all your files and tape them together to make one big map. Ridiculous.
This product is fine if you do not want to print your map. I created a territory and added locations via the pushpins. It will only print what you see on your screen.
Still, its a powerful program with great tools. Not particularly easy to learn and the book MapPoint for Dummies is an earlier version. Export maps in Word with push pins showing the location of important locations for others without MapPoint. There is a lot of meat to this product; identify drive times from a certain location, overlay income or other demographic info and convert selected areas into zip codes and export to Excel.
I remove them by exporting my maps as jpg files, and editing them in Photoshop but that is a huge, and unnecessary, nuisance. For example, city names will obscure your every map whether you want them or not.
And, the 2006 version will not "save as" an older version either. In short, if you upgrade, everyone else will also need to upgrade. Easy to use, colorful, very readable, but limiting.
Mappoint is a basic mapping program with some data-plotting features. Microsoft could use some competition. Otherwise, it's a decent program, although its "idiot-proof" functionality inhibits flexibility.
First, keep in mind that Mappoint is NOT forward-compatible; i.e., your 2006 maps will be useless to anyone who owns prior versions.
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