TomTom Xl Referece Guide

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Planning a route with a new starting point
To plan a route in advance of travelling or to use a starting point that isn’t your current 
location, do the following:
1. Tap the screen to open the Main Menu.
2. Tap Plan route.
3. Tap Depart from.
You can enter an address in various ways, but we will enter the full address.
4. Tap Address.
Start to type the name of the town where your journey will begin and tap on the name 
when it appears in the list.
Tip: When you plan a route for the first time you are...

Finding alternative routes7.
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Find-
ing 
alterna-
tive 
routesOnce you have planned a route, you may want to change something about the route, with-
out changing your destination.
Reasons for changing a 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.
Change route
Tap this button in the...

13 Recalculate 
original
Tap this button to replan your original route.
This button is shown when you have changed your route by calculat-
ing an alternative.
Travel via...
Tap this button to change your route so that it passes a particular 
location, perhaps to pick someone up on the way. When you do this, 
a marker is shown on the map for the location you choose to travel 
via.
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...

Options8.
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Option
sYou can change the way your TomTom XL looks and behaves.
Tap options in the Main Menu.
Change voice
Set clock
Change voice
Your navigation device is able to provide spoken instructions and 
warnings using voices which are stored on the device. Some voices 
have been recorded by actors and other voices are computer-gener-
ated.
The recorded voices are only used for spoken instructions while the 
computer voices are used for both spoken instructions and for read-
ing aloud information...

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Change language
Home and Favourites
Voices and images
Map corrections
Advanced settings
To change the advanced settings on your TomTom XL, tap the Advanced button in the 
Options menu.
Set units
Operate left-handed / Operate right handed
Change 
language
Tap this button to change the language used for all the buttons and 
messages you see on your XL.
You can choose from a wide range of languages. When you change the 
language, you are also given the opportunity to change the voice. 
Home and...

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Keyboard preferences
Enable/Disable Safety Alerts
TomTom Safety Alerts
Important: If you have a subscription to this service, regularly connect your 
navigation device to TomTom HOME to update the list of locations for all types of safety 
alerts. The locations of mobile cameras are sent directly to your device.
When a safety camera location is shown on the map, a warning sound is played to warn 
you that you are approaching an area where a safety camera is located.
Switch map
Keyboard 
preferences...

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Reset factory settings
Reset factory 
settings
Tap this button to restore the factory settings to your TomTom XL.
All your settings, including your Home location and any Favourites, are 
deleted. 

Favourites9.
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Favour-
itesAbout Favourites
Favourites are places that you often visit. You can create Favourites so that you don’t have 
to enter the address every time you plan a route.
They don’t have to be places you especially like, just useful addresses.
Creating a Favourite
From the Main Menu, tap options followed by Home and Favourites and then tap Add 
Favourite. 
You can then select the location of the Favourite from the list below.
You can type your own name for the Favourite when the...

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Using a Favourite
You will normally use a Favourite to plan a route somewhere without having to enter the 
address. To plan a route to a Favourite location, do the following:
1. Tap the screen to open the Main Menu.
2. Tap Plan route or Change route.
3. Tap Favourite.
4. Select a Favourite from the list. This will be your destination.
5. Select Now.
6. If your current location is unknown you are asked if you want to wait until the location 
is known or if you want to plan a route using your last known...

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Changing the name of a Favourite
1. Tap the screen to bring up the Main Menu.
2. Tap options to open the Options menu.
3. Tap Home and Favourites.
4. Tap Manage Favourites. 
5. Tap the Favourite you want to rename.
6. Tap Rename.
Deleting a Favourite
1. Tap the screen to bring up the Main Menu.
2. Tap options to open the Options menu.
3. Tap Home and Favourites.
4. Tap Manage Favourites.
5. Tap the Favourite you want to delete.
6. Tap Delete.