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Planning in advance
You can also use your RIDER to plan journeys in advance by selecting both 
your starting point and your destination. You could, for example, do the 
following:
• Find out how long a journey is going to take before you start.
• Check the route of a journey you are planning.
• Check a route for someone who is coming to you and explain the route to 
them.
To plan a route in advance, follow these steps:
1. Tap the screen to bring up the main menu.
2. Tap Advanced...

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You can then select from the following options:
You can access these options for the route you last planned by tapping View 
route in the Main Menu.
Browse as 
text
Tap this button for a list of all the turn instructions on the route.
This is particularly useful if you need to explain a route to someone else.
Browse as 
images
Tap this button to see each turn in the journey. Tap the right and left arrows 
to move forwards and backwards through the journey.
Tap the screen to turn off...

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Chapter 6
Driving View
Driving View
AButtons to zoom in and zoom out on your position.
BYour current position.
CThe name of the next major road or road sign information, if applicable.
DThe next instruction.
This area shows you what to do and when you will have to do it.
Tap this area to repeat the last spoken instruction and to change the 
volume.
EThe name of the next street to turn onto.
FInformation about your journey.
Normally this area shows the remaining journey time, remaining...

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Chapter 7
Menus
Menus
Main menu
Tap the screen at any time when TomTom RIDER displays the Driving View to 
open the Main Menu.
•Navigate to...
Tap this button to start planning a route.
•Find alternative...
Tap this button if you want to avoid part of your route, travel via a specific 
location or calculate an alternative route.
•TomTom Traffic
Tap this button to enable or disable traffic information. For more 
information, see TomTom Traffic on page 61.
•Mobile phone
This button opens...

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•Navigate to…
Tap this button to select a destination.
•Turn off sound / Turn on sound
Tap this button to turn the spoken instructions on or off.
•Clear route
Tap this button to delete the route that is currently planned. Your 
TomTom RIDER will stop giving you directions. 
Your position will still be shown in the Driving View. You do not need to 
clear a route before you plan a new route, or start navigating to a new 
destination.
•Add favourite
Tap this button to add your current...

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Chapter 8
Finding alternative routes
Finding alternative routesOnce you have planned a route, you may want to change something about the 
route, without changing your destination.
Why would I want to change the route? 
Maybe for one of these reasons:
• You can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead.
• You want to travel via a particular location, to pick someone up, stop for 
lunch or fill up with petrol.
• You want to avoid a difficult junction or a road you don’t like.
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Travel via...
Tap this button to change your route so that it passes a particular location.
Perhaps you want to pick someone up on the way, or stop for lunch.
You choose the location you want to pass in the same way as you choose a 
destination. So you can select from all the same options: for example, 
Address, Favourite, Point of Interest and Point on map.
Your RIDER will calculate a new route to your destination that passes the 
location you chose. 
Using this button, you can only...

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Chapter 9
Itinerary planning
Itinerary planning
What is an Itinerary?
An Itinerary is a plan for a journey with more stops than just your final 
destination. 
An Itinerary is made up of the following items:
• Destinations - places you want to stop
• Waypoints - places you want to pass
Here’s an example of an Itinerary:
When would I use an Itinerary?
You could use an Itinerary for these kinds of trips:
• A driving holiday through a country with lots of stops.
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Creating an Itinerary
1. Tap the screen to bring up the Main Menu.
2. Tap Itinerary planning.
The Itinerary planning screen opens. At first, there are no items on the 
Itinerary.
3. Tap Add and select a location.
Following an Itinerary
When you use an Itinerary to navigate, the route will be calculated to the first 
destination on the Itinerary. Your TomTom RIDER calculates the remaining 
distance and time to the first destination and not for the whole Itinerary.
As soon as you start...