Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Locate an Address with Contacts Maps

If you plan to visit someone listed in Contacts, and if that person’s contact record includes an address, you can use the Contacts map feature.

In addition to enabling you to view a map pinpointing the contact’s location, you can also obtain directions from your location to your destination. Note that in order to use Contact’s mapping function, you must be online.

Locate an Address with Contacts Maps

1.	With the window for the contact whose location you want to map open in Outlook, click under Addresses and choose Home, Business, or Other to select the address you need.
2.	In the Contact tab’s Communicate group, click the Map button. [View full size image] A Windows Live Web page opens, pinpointing the contact’s location. [View full size image]
3.	To obtain directions from your current location to the contact’s, place your cursor over the address link.
4.	Click the Drive To link from the list of options that appears. The contact’s address is added ...