Manage Favourites/Home/Office locations on Garmin Nuvi 40LM

Garmin Nuvi GPS allows the saving of favourite locations into memory so that there is no need to re-key in the same set of addresses over and over again if you need to go to such places frequently. For example you could save Home and Office locations into the GPS and you could quickly activate it to navigate to those locations from wherever you are on the road.

There was one day which I accidentally saved a wrong address as my Home location and I had a hard time figuring out how to change it on my Garmin Nuvi 40LM. I used to be able to able to do it easily on the Nuvi 2465, which often had menu options within the navigation screen. This is not the case for the Garmin Nuvi 40LM.

I managed to find out how to do that one day. As below are the steps required.

	Start from the home screen. Tap on Where To?
	Tap on Favourites. (You may need to scroll up or down the menu to locate that option)
	Tap on Home (or any other favourite locations that you want to remove) Note: I do not live in Teban Gardens, this is just a bogus address.
	A map of the selected location will be presented. Tap on the white speech balloon that is surrounding the address field.
	You will be presented with some options that you can use for that location. Tap on Delete.
	Confirm the deletion by tapping on Yes.

That location should then be gone from Favourites.

Garmin Nuvi 40LM

Recently I have upgraded to the Garmin Nuvi 40LM for my GPS needs. "LM" stands for lifetime map updates, so I should not have to worry about having to pay to update the maps from now onwards. There are free maps out there that could be downloaded onto the device, but in my opinion they are not as useful as the official Garmin maps.

The Compass and Bluetooth functions (can answer phone with the GPS unit once they are paired up) on my previous Garmin Nuvi 2465 were not very often used. As for the voice command, it was only accurate when dictating numbers and not words (maybe it was my diction that was causing the problem) but anyway it did not prove to be useful under most circumstances.

(picture credit: Garmin)