US County Map for Building a Sales Territory Map from Maps For Design

North Carolina Editable PowerPoint Map for Making a Sales Territory Map. This editable PowerPoint map is perfect for your presentations that need a county map. All of the counties are editable, you can change the colors, add text or graphics. Each element is an individual object that you can take out, or delete.  Perfect for setting up sales and marketing territory for your team. Each county is an individual object that can be colored and customized. You can change colors, pull out several counties to build regions, add a star for an office, edit the text and delete what you don't want.

To learn more about our editable maps and the North Carolina map please visit:
https://www.mapsfordesign.com/product/north-carolina-editable-us-detailed-county-and-highway-powerpoint-map/

USA National County Map with Editable Counties and Names for PowerPoint

View of our large 28" x 20" USA National County Map with the included PowerPoint slides.

USA National PowerPoint Editable County Map
One of our most popular editable PowerPoint maps is our USA National County Map. Available on  MapsforDesign.com site. This map is used by sales and marketing managers who want to set up a national county sales territory map with the big picture. This is a complicated map with over 3,000 counties, below are some tips for getting the most out of this map.

But we have a larger national county map that is 28" wide by 20" high. What we usually do is email this larger file to anyone who purchases the 17" x 11" map. Here is a link for the current PowerPoint USA National County map. I am going to work on getting the larger map up on MapsforDesign.com shortly.


How to Build a US National County Sales Territory Map in PowerPoint from Bruce Jones on Vimeo.

Some key tips to keep in mind when you purchase and use this map for your projects.
• Grouping and UnGrouping - The county map is set up with each state's counties grouped together, and with their names set up as a group on top. Grouping and Ungrouping are very important when working with a map like this. I usually recommend that you customized one state at a time. You can pull a state out and paste it on a second slide, customize it and then put it back.

• Selecting Several Counties at The Same Time - Your Shift key is your friend for grabbing several objects at the same time and setting up a sales or marketing territory. Click on the first county, push down your Shift key and then click on additional counties. Once they are selected you can add a fill color to make them all the same.

• Selecting and Pulling Out Several States at The Same Time - The task is to select several states. It is usually easier with this map to delete what you don't want instead of trying to select what you do want. Once you have the surrounding states cleared out it is easy to grab the states you want.

• Snap to Grid - On all of our maps the Snap to Grid has been turned off. The default in PowerPoint is that the Snap to Grid is turned on. The Snap to Grid is an invisible grid in the PowerPoint slide that helps you line objects up. What happens with our maps is if Snap to Grid is on and you pull out several counties from the big map, customize them and put them back, it can be tough to get them back all lined up from where they came out from. If the grid is off it is easy. This comes into play if you select one of our maps and paste it into another presentation the Snap to Grid will be on. To turn it off hold down the Control key on your keyboard and Right Click with your Mouse. You will see it as an option in the pop up window, just click it off.

We have put together a couple of videos on how to customize this map and set up a sales territory.
Working with a section of the map. http://www.mapsfordesign.com/video/video6.php
Setting up a Sales Territory map http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugOB6ZyW8ug

PowerPoint Russia, China, India and Southeast Asia Map

Russia, China, India, and Southeast Asia editable PowerPoint Map.

On of our bigger more complex World Regional Maps. This map has the former Soviet Union, now independent countries, China, India and South East Asia. We have a number of maps of this region. This map comes in both PowerPoint and in Adobe Illustrator, all countries can be edited and customized however you need. It is also easy to change the colors to white and you have a blank, printable map for a worksheet or to color.

How to Add Cities and Location Dots to Our Editable PowerPoint Maps

We had a great question from a customer on how to add new cities and location dots to our PowerPoint or Adobe Illustrator maps. This is pretty easy to do using either a text bullet or drawing a small circle and then a text box for the name. I also thought this would make a great video as we get this question now and then.

We love customer questions, please let us know what you need to know and we make up a video on the question.

Searching for Where Japan is On The Globe

We have been following the events in Japan with a lot of interest and amazement. I took a quick look at our Google Analytics stats for our World of Maps site and saw a big spike on Friday, March 11, the day of the earthquake. The top 9 all centered around Japan. It was interesting to see what people were searching on and the keyword phrases they used.

In order:

1. japan on globe
2. where is japan on the globe
3. globe of japan
4. japan globe map
5. world globe japan
6. globe japan
7. map of japan and usa
8. japan globe
9. japan on a globe

Above is our Southeast Asia map showing Japan, China and Southeast Asia, to see all of our editable PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator maps check out http://www.bjdesign.com

Easy of Working with Our Editable PowerPoint Maps

We had a nice comment today from a customer that need to do a lot of customizing on one of our maps. They also need to duplicate the map for a book as well as the web. They bought one of our PowerPoint maps and then we sent along the matching Illustrator map for their designer. We got this comment back.

Bruce,

I am having fun working with the map I just ordered!  You have done a very
good job designing it and making it easy to use.

Thank you for the attached file, I'll forward it to my illustrator.

Have a great weekend!

Rich

Can We Use the World of Maps Editable Clipart Maps in Books?

We had a great question the other day from a customer named Gene on using our editable clip art maps in a book.

Question:
I am interested in using your maps in a book that I will be publishing. are there royalty fees to pay? do I need to indicate source of the maps on each page or at the end of the book?


Answer:
Hi Gene, thank you for visiting our site and for your question. You are free to use the maps in your book, there are no additional royalties that you have to pay and you do not have to mention the source. If you want to somewhere that is cool but we don't require it at all.

The only restriction we have is if you are making a map clipart book, for that we have a license but other than that no problem at all. Would love to know the subject matter and when you get it done let me know and I will put a link to it on our blog if you want.

Very cool, thank you for asking, please let me know if you have questions.

bruce jones

Saving Your Map in PowerPoint as a High Res JPG File

We had a great question today on how to increase the resolution of a jpg file that you can save out of PowerPoint

Question: When saving as a jpeg, is there a way to edit the resolution? It automatically saves to 96dpi. I'd like to save as 300dpi.

Answer: I am assuming you are working out of PowerPoint, I don't think so. I think it is just an save option. If you are going to the web it is fine, if you are going to print then it might not be.

One solution would be if you could  set up a larger PowerPoint slide, maybe 20" x 20", in document setup. Copy the map into it, (this is important, otherwise the map gets distorted), group it, enlarge it and then make the jpg. Then in Photoshop or some other photo editing program you can reduce it down to a smaller size and the resolution will go up proportional.  You can also just resize the jpg in your layout program and the resolution goes up.

So 9 inches at 100dpi, becomes 300dpi at 2.25,

Directory of USA, Canada and Mexico Editable PowerPoint and Illustrator Maps

USA, Canada and Mexico images from our World of Maps Collection of editable PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator Maps. All of the maps show are fully editable with each state, province, or text element an individual item. Each one can be customized, colored, moved around how ever you like. These maps are great for doing PowerPoint presentations, building websites, illustrations, graphic design or classroom activities. Maps are available from our two websites, www.bjdesign.com if you need a lot or www.mapsfordesign.com if you need just one.

Our North America maps include, the USA, Canada, North America, USA and Canada, USA and Mexico, Mexico, USA with 2 letter state names and with full names.

Selecting Little Individule Countries in Our World Maps

We were just asked a question about selecting some of the little tiny countries in our world maps so that they can be colored.

Answer. The easiest way is to use the zoom feature of PowerPoint or Adobe Illustrator, 300% seems to work pretty well. Zoom in and select with the a click of your pointer. Once selected the country can be colored or changed

If you are using a map with names on it, it is often easiest to just move the name out of the way and then select the country with your pointer.

And a third way is to drag your pointer over or around the country. Holding down the mouse button and drag around the country your want to select. You will see dotted lines appear on the screen and this tells you that what is inside of them will be selected. In PowerPoint you have to go all around the object to select it, but if you just cross over border nothing will happen. In Illustrator an object will be selected if any part of the dragging mouse pointer goes over the edge.

For more information be sure to check out our How to Instructional Videos at MapsforDesign.com

Easy to Edit Countries and Text Names

Customer Question: I would like to add text to to some of your country maps. How editable are your maps?

Answer: All of our powerpoint maps are editable, just like any PowerPoint slide is. You can add text where ever you like. Just use the text tool in the drawing bar. Once you have type in place you can format and move where ever you need. We have a lot of samples on the site that you can also download and try out. Also check out our How to Videos on customzing maps, they will show you just how to do this.

Thank you for stopping by.