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In the old days (a few years ago!), if you had a contact located in an unfamiliar part of town or even in another city altogether, visiting that person required a phone call or email ask­ing for directions. You’d then write down the instructions, get written directions via email, or perhaps even get a crudely drawn map faxed to you. Those days, fortunately, are long gone thanks to a myriad of online resources that can show you where a particular address is located and even give you driving directions to get there from here (wherever “here” may be).

Even better, Outlook 2007 integrates with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and Live Search ser­vices to generate a map of a contact’s location based on the person’s contact address. Follow these steps to use the Map feature:

1. Open the contact you want to work with.
2. In the Addresses section, on the drop-down list, click the address type you want to use (Business, Home, or Other).
3. Check the address to make sure it’s accurate.
4. Choose Contact, Map. Outlook opens Internet Explorer and sends the contact’s address to the Live Search service, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Clicking the Map button in a contact window loads the contact’s address into the Live Search service, which dis­plays a map of the con­tact’s location.

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