For organized reading material, I would start with the Help file.. there are some tutorials in there.

Then the MapPoint for Dummies book.

If you planning to do some programming I would also recommend the O'Reilly book "Programming MapPoint in .NET" (even if you aren't using .NET).

Also, the MP2K Magazine articles and newsletters.
MP2K Magazine Articles
MP2K Magazine Newsletters

Finally this forum has a great wealth of information, Search for any topic using the tool above.

Richard is right about displaying individual states, it's not perfect, but we have the template which can cover up states with a white polygon. Hopefully Microsoft will make it more seamless in future version of MapPoint.

Try out the sample download.
Map Individual U.S. States in MapPoint

For whole countries you would have to have similar polygons to cover them up, I don't know if anyone has this template for sale, but I could create one for a custom request...

hope this helps.
Eric

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