About the MapPoint Office COM add-in

The MapPoint Office COM add-in adds a toolbar button and menu items to many of your Microsoft Office programs, allowing you to work with MapPoint directly from within Office. You can insert embedded or linked maps into your Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Microsoft Office Publisher, and Microsoft Office Visio documents, create a map of addresses from your Microsoft Office Outlook contacts, begin planning a route in MapPoint using an address from your Word document, or export or link data from an Excel spreadsheet to MapPoint.

Microsoft Office programs for which the MapPoint Office COM add-in is available

  • Microsoft Office Excel 2007 or later

  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or later

  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 or later

  • Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 or later

  • Microsoft Office Visio 2007 or later

  • Microsoft Office Word 2007 or later

The MapPoint Office COM add-in appears when you open an Office program, even if you installed the program after you installed MapPoint. You can remove the add-in from any of your Office programs.

Notes

  • For the MapPoint Office COM add-in to be available for non-administrator users, Microsoft Office 2010 or Microsoft Office 2007 with the update at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386106(VS.100).aspx must be installed.

  • MapPoint must be launched at least once before the MapPoint Office COM add-in is available within an Office program.

  • Microsoft Office 2010 (64 bit) is not supported.

More information

If you use Office 2007, you can view help for enabling or disabling add-ins for Office programs. For more information, visit Enable or disable add-ins in Office programs.

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