Hi Richard,

Unfortunately there's no way to get the place names switched off completely.. you might take a look at the Microsoft Map technology found in Excel 97-2000.

Also, there are Visio templates for mapping and you might also take a look at MapInfo.. I've done some pretty nifty automated mapping applications with MapInfo, it's expensive and in some ways harder to work with than MapPoint, but you have much finer control over the display. It can be fully automated from VB or VBA through OLE automation like MapPoint.

Eric

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