About Pushpins and Pushpin sets
Pushpins in MapPoint are similar to the ones you stick in a wall map to mark places 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 a client's office, stops on a delivery route, or any other place on the map. You can include text with your Pushpin or add a link to the World Wide Web or to a file on your computer or a shared network. You can even copy the information contained in a Pushpin to another document. A Pushpin contains the following parts:
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Symbol You can change the way Pushpins appear on the map by choosing one of the 336 stock symbols or one of your own custom symbols.
Name You can give your Pushpin any name that's up to 128 characters long. You can use this name to find your Pushpin on the map.
Text balloon Include text to record useful information about a place, or include a link to a Web site, 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 data as Pushpins, your source file is represented in the map legend as a Pushpin set. For instance, if you import store locations from a Microsoft Excel file called My Stores, each individual store 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.
More information
Create, delete, and work with Pushpins