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Beginner's guide to using this great and super-easy software to print out maps and directions for trips with multiple stops. There are many other mapping alternatives and programs like this one. I use Mapquest for years before MS Streets & Trips. Mapquest had many weaknesses - you had to wait for the pages to load, putting in multiple stops was easy but took several extra steps and loading time, saving and sharing map routes was also a difficult, no GPS support, and you couldn't use it if you didn't have internet. Microsoft Streets and Trips is dead easy to use.
To begin, click in the search box right next to the button "Find" at the top left. And type in as much of the address of your start, stop, or endpoint. In my experience, just typing the STREET NUMBER, STREET NAME, and ZIP CODE will do just fine. S&T will fill in the rest for you.
After you have finished typing in all the addresses of your stops. Click on Route at the top and then click on Route Planner. Now start right-clicking all the flags of your stops on the map and click on Route > Add as... Use the up and down arrow buttons on the route planner to move your stops around. Once you have decided on your route order, click on "Get Directions". The directions will show up in a new window on top of the map. From here you just have to print and that's it! There are many other features I didn't mention like being able to choose different types of maps and telling S&T to avoid certain freeways but you can figure this all out for yourself later! Thanks for reading and use this program to help organize your life today. Also don't forget that www.sigalert.com has real-time traffic updates so you can plan your trips around the traffic jams!
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