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Work with task panes
Task panes appear on the left side or at the bottom of the MapPoint window. You can use task panes to track your location with a GPS receiver, create routes, display driving guidance instructions, create territories, find nearby places, and so on.
Use the GPS pane
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You can use the GPS task pane to track your position with a GPS receiver and view information about your speed and direction as you travel. You can set GPS options in the task pane, for example, to keep your position centered on the map, rotate the map as your direction changes, and display a GPS trail that is updated as you travel. In addition, you can start or stop the Driving Guidance feature.
You can use the GPS functions with the Route Planner functions to create routes that start at your current location or to recalculate existing routes starting from your current location. When using the GPS functions with the Driving Guidance feature, you can use the buttons in the GPS task pane to turn voice instructions on or off or to repeat the previous instruction.
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About Driving Guidance with MapPoint
Use the Driving Guidance pane
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You can use the Driving Guidance pane in conjunction with the GPS features after creating a route with MapPoint. The GPS features provide information about your current position and the Driving Guidance feature provides voice and text instructions to help you follow the route. Arrow icons indicate the direction of the next turn and a progress bar shows approximately how much of the current instruction you have completed. You can repeat previous instructions and turn voice instructions on or off by using options in the GPS pane.
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Use the Route Planner pane
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You can use the Route Planner pane to design your route. You can set route options, such as types of roads, scheduled rest stops, your average driving speed, the average length of your driving day, and so on; search for stops; and reorder, schedule, and delete stops. MapPoint calculates your route and displays it on the map, either in the order in which you list the stops in the Route Planner pane when you click Get Directions, or by reordering your intermediate stops in the most time-efficient way when you click Optimize Stops.
Note When you click a stop in the Route Planner pane, that stop appears centered on the map.
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Use the Find Nearby Places pane
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The Find Nearby Places pane displays a list of restaurants and other places that are located near a designated point on the map. You can choose the categories of restaurants and places to search for, in addition to the radius of the search area, such as a certain distance around a point you select on the map or around your route. You can also sort the resulting list alphabetically or by distance.
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When you click the name of a place in the Find Nearby Places pane, that restaurant or place is selected on the map.
The types of places that show on the map after a Find Nearby search are determined by the Show or Hide Places settings.
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Use the Territory Manager pane
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The Territory Manager pane lists the territories that you create. You can use the Territory Manager pane to add territories to and delete territories from the territory list, and to add and remove geographic areas assigned to each territory.