About pushpins
Pushpins in MapPoint are similar to the ones you stick in a wall map to mark places that you want to remember. You can create a pushpin to mark a single place, or to represent data you've imported to your map.
A pushpin marks a place
You can personalize your map by adding pushpins to mark the locations of your home or office, favorite restaurants, or any other place on the map. You can include text with a pushpin, or you can add a link to the World Wide Web or to a file on your computer or on a shared network. You can even copy the information contained in a pushpin to another document. A pushpin contains the following parts:
Symbol. You can change the way pushpins appear on the map by choosing from more than 300 pushpin symbols or by choosing your own custom symbol.
Name. You can give your pushpin any name that's up to 128 characters long (with spaces). You can use this name to find your pushpin on the map.
Text balloon. You can include text to record useful information about a place, or you can include a link to a website, an intranet site, or another file.
Location information. When you use a pushpin to denote an address on the map, that address is stored with the pushpin and cannot be edited.
Pushpin sets represent data
When you import addresses as pushpins, the map legend represents your source file as a pushpin set. For instance, if you import fishing locations from a Microsoft Office Excel file called My Fishing Places, each location is represented as a pushpin on the map, and the source file appears in the legend as a pushpin set with a name you choose. You can easily rename a pushpin set and assign a new symbol to each of the pushpins it contains.
Each time you create a new pushpin, it is automatically placed in a set called My Pushpins and is stored with your map. You can hide or show pushpin sets on your map.