AutoRoute offers a familiar set of drawing tools, similar to those in Microsoft Office applications, that allows you to customise your maps. The comprehensive drawing tools allow you to highlight areas, draw lines, add arrows, display radius, insert text, and more.

You can place icons, pictures, graphics, logos, or formatted text as visual elements, anywhere on your maps, by importing the pieces as custom symbols.

1. On the Standard toolbar, click the arrow next to Create Pushpin.
2. Click Import Custom Symbol.
3. In the Look in box, type or select the name of the folder that contains your custom symbol.
4. Click the custom symbol file name in the list, and then click Open. Your custom symbol is imported into AutoRoute and added to the list of available symbols. You can use it just as you would any standard pushpin symbol.

AutoRoute is compatible with many popular databases so you can import data and contacts from Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, .GPX or text files.

1. On the Data menu, click Import Data Wizard or Import .GPX file.
2. Select the source file you want to import, and click Open.
3. Choose the dataset from the source file that you want AutoRoute to use. For example, if you are importing from Excel, you will need to select the desired sheet or range. If importing from Access, you can select a specific table.
4. After selecting the data, click Next. If you did not have to choose a sheet, range, table, or separator character, this step is skipped.
5. Select the data type for each column of data, the Country/Region that pertains to the data, and specify if the first row of your data contains column headings.
6. Click Finish.