how can i get stops to become pushpins?   

If you just opened a new map point document and used route planner to just 
add addresses, let's say you had 50 addresses and you did not have time to 
create an excel sheet, and you just inputted the addresses in the box above 
"Add to Route," do you realize that after you input the addresses and click 
the Add to Route button that after the addresses are on the map, you can't 
select all the stops and change them to pushpins?  do you also realize that 
you can't export the data to excel, if let's say you wanted to do that?

I found this out, and it was very frustrating because I was given a long 
list and was asked to do it asap...so I didnt have time to do the excel 
spreadsheet and thought that I could later export to excel...that really was 
disappointing.

Any ideas on this??

date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:51:03 -0800   author:   Helen

Re: how can i get stops to become pushpins?   

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:51:03 -0800, Helen
 wrote:

>If you just opened a new map point document and used route planner to just 
>add addresses, let's say you had 50 addresses and you did not have time to 
>create an excel sheet, and you just inputted the addresses in the box above 
>"Add to Route," do you realize that after you input the addresses and click 
>the Add to Route button that after the addresses are on the map, you can't 
>select all the stops and change them to pushpins?  do you also realize that 
>you can't export the data to excel, if let's say you wanted to do that?
>
>I found this out, and it was very frustrating because I was given a long 
>list and was asked to do it asap...so I didnt have time to do the excel 
>spreadsheet and thought that I could later export to excel...that really was 
>disappointing.
>
>Any ideas on this??

"Think before you leap" comes to mind. Spending a few seconds
beforehand checking that your planned process actually works (*) would
have saved you valuable time. In general, MapPoint is a "one way"
application - it turns data into maps, but (usually) not the other way
'round.

Never use MapPoint as your sole data container, always keep (or
create) a copy of the data (spreadsheet, CSV file, Access MDB,
database table ...) in its original form, and consider that the source
data. 

   Regards,
   Gilles [MVP].

   (Please reply to the group, not via email.
   Find my MVP profile with past articles / downloads here: 
   http://www.gilleskohl.de/mvpprofile.htm)

(*) or that you are posting to the correct newsgroup - this one is
about the MapPoint web service, news:microsoft.public.mappoint is
about the desktop application.

date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:06:47 +0100   author:   Gilles Kohl [MVP] no_email_available@