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Tips & Tricks

Features and workflows not quite so obvious.

Tutorials

Visit the TrailRunner website to find tutorials. Tutorials are step by step instructions. So read them just to learn about certain steps you might want to know about.

Quickguide

The following steps are an attempt to give you the shortest idea on how to get started.

Customizing the toolbar

The toolbar in the main document and the buttons available there are customizable to your needs. Select View > Customize toolbar to open the customization panel. Drag the Command into and out of the toolbar.

Exporting diary information

In the route description window and in the diary, copy and paste lets you transfer information as tab-separated text into e.g. Excel.

Transfer routes, tracks and maps tiles between documents

You can copy and paste map tiles, tracks and way-points from one TrailRunner document into another. This could be helpful if you are migrating parts of one document into another document.

The information is stored as gpx inside the clipboard. This could also be helpful if you open a gpx file in a text editor, remove or edit data, select all and paste it into a TrailRunner document. The new information is being merged in then.

Calculate route-variations

Sometimes TrailRunner can not find good route results from a single selected starting point on. Instead select a similar route with a different distance and choose Route > Duplicate and Adjust.

Keyboard Shortcuts

For faster working with the application many shortcuts are available.

Files and Backup

TrailRunner not only stores information in your document but also in files located in your user directory. For optimal happiness, regularly backup these files.

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