Just knowing the address of your customers, business contacts, and other places you travel to may not be enough to quickly find the location. If you're not familiar with the area, it can be time consuming to drive around until you figure out the street system. Outlook 2000 takes the guesswork out of traveling. Working with your Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Outlook automatically links an address in your Contacts folder to a map of that area that's available through the Expedia® Maps Web site on the Internet.

 Note    If an address is in your Personal Address Book, you can import it into Contacts to use the mapping and other features Contacts offers. For more information, type import addresses into contacts in the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab in the Outlook Help window, and then click Search.

See a map of a contact's address

1. Click Contacts on the Outlook Bar.
2. Click the contact whose address you want to locate.
3. On the File menu, point to Open, and then click Selected Items.
4. Under the address button, click the down arrow, and then click the type of address you want to find on a map - Business, Home, or Other.
5. On the Actions menu, click Display Map of Address.

On the Expedia Maps Web site, you might need to specify additional information to get the most appropriate map for your needs. For help on this, click the Help button on the Expedia Maps Web site toolbar.

If the Web site can't display a map for the address, verify that you entered the address correctly. In the contact in Outlook, click the Address button. Make sure the fields contain the correct information.