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Updates, tips, and insights from the 1990Quebec team.
Updates, tips, and insights from the 1990Quebec team.
Select an add-in's outer border on your PowerPoint slide to drag its corner sizing handles, move its frame, or undo a change.
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Ask Claude for a single-file dashboard, then paste it into HTML Viewer 365 or host it and load it with Web Viewer 2.0.
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See why a file under SharePoint's 400-character limit can still fail Windows' 259-character limit on your PC, and how to fix both.
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Extract a valid ZIP archive in SharePoint with Zip & Unzip or on your PC with Windows' tar.exe or PowerShell 7's Expand-Archive when File Explorer rejects its long internal paths.
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Shorten long ZIP paths in SharePoint with Zip & Unzip or extract to a short local folder like C:\x so every file stays within Windows' path limit.
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Move or rename folders so your workbook's full path on the PC is 259 characters or fewer and opens in Excel.
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Shorten parent folders in SharePoint so OneDrive can download cloud-only files on your PC, or open the files directly in your browser.
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Shorten a parent folder in File Explorer to bring the SharePoint path under 400 characters and let OneDrive finish uploading.
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Track elapsed time privately on Mac, pause for interruptions, and reset the native timer for another rehearsal.
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Record your speaking pace or set exact slide durations, then choose automatic or manual playback.
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Download an editable quiz with three questions, answer slides, and a silent 30-second countdown per question. No timer add-in required.
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Download a reusable slide with a five-minute video, customize the activity text, and change the timer duration.
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Place timers on the slides that need them and use Presentation sync to keep their countdown state linked.
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Set up a PowerPoint countdown or a free browser timer, choose who sees it, and rehearse the timing before a live event.
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Enable the beep at zero, check the presentation audio, and choose a quiet countdown when sound would interrupt.
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Insert and configure a countdown in PowerPoint on Mac, then check the timer in Slide Show.
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Configure browser focus and break cycles, use Windows or Mac Clock, or lead a shared focus session from PowerPoint.
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Use Zoom's Timer app, share a browser countdown, or keep a timer beside your PowerPoint instructions.
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Choose a visible timer for lessons, games, and group activities, with browser, Clock app, and slide options.
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Set up shared exam countdowns, practice timers, or individual quiz time limits.
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Choose a speech or meeting timer, share a speaker display, and keep a timed agenda on schedule.
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Set one-off break reminders, alternate work and rest, or show a countdown on a break slide.
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Count up elapsed time on your slide, pause and resume, or export a stopwatch video.
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Build a countdown with native PowerPoint animations and compare reusable slides, videos, and live timers.
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Export a custom timer MP4 and insert it into PowerPoint with the right playback settings.
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Show the current time with Web Viewer or an HTML clock, and understand PowerPoint's date-and-time fields.
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Show embeddable public posts and videos on your slides, with a guide for each platform.
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Show a public Instagram post, reel, or video live on your slide.
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Play a public TikTok video on your slide without downloading it.
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Show a public tweet or X post live on your slide, including its video.
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Play a public Facebook video on your slide with its supported online player.
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Show a public LinkedIn post or video on your slide with LinkedIn's embed option.
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Replace the retired viewer with Web Viewer 2.0, an independent 1990Quebec add-in.
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Play an audio file across slides, or show an online player on one slide.
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Open the Office add-in catalog, find the right listing, and handle a managed installation.
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Put a live, interactive web page on your slide and present it without switching to a browser.
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Play a YouTube video with PowerPoint's Online Video feature or an embedded web player.
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Choose a video file, a supported Online Video link, or an embeddable web player.
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Make text, images, or shapes clickable, fix links that don't work, and show websites on the slide.
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Match the activity to slide links, live polls, simulations, maps, or prototypes.
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Load a hosted page or iframe source, or save HTML with HTML Viewer 365.
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Use Microsoft's Power BI add-in for private reports, or embed a report already published to the web.
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Embed a Tableau Public dashboard with live filters, or export static slides from Tableau.
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Choose a live dashboard workflow, preserve access controls, and check data freshness.
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Click through a live Figma prototype on your slide, or export frames as static images.
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Keep Genially buttons, pop-ups, and quizzes working on your PowerPoint slide.
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Load a Google Map or OpenStreetMap on your slide and pan and zoom during your talk.
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Compare Microsoft Forms, polling-service integrations, and embedded presentation or results pages.
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Add live web pages to PowerPoint from Microsoft AppSource, with no macros.
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Keep a live dashboard, documentation, map, or video next to your worksheet data.
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Use OneNote's native embeds, or add a live website to a page in OneNote on the web.
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Use PowerPoint's 3D Models feature, or embed an interactive Sketchfab viewer on your slide.
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Need to demo a local web app in PowerPoint? Learn why direct localhost links fail in Office, and how to safely embed your local site using a tunnel.
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We show six wheel websites inside PowerPoint and explain how to add a live wheel to your slide with Web Viewer 2.0.
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Copy a ready-to-use HTML sample into your slide or worksheet, then fix common layout problems when resizing the add-in.
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Browse all 188 conversion paths by source format, including images, spreadsheets, documents, video, and audio.
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Compare File Converter, Office export, Power Automate, OneDrive sync, and manual conversion. Pick the approach that fits your files and workflow.
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Marketplace blocked in your tenant? Deploy an Office add-in directly to selected users or your whole organization through Microsoft 365 admin center.
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Why some websites cannot load inside Web Viewer, and what site owners can change when they control the page.
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Learn how DICOM studies, series, instances, frames, and DICOMDIR packages map to SharePoint, then open and share medical images.
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Someone can view a content add-in already included in a shared PowerPoint without installing the add-in separately. PowerPoint may ask them to allow the add-in first.
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Open the per-user MFA controls in Microsoft 365 and enable or disable MFA for a selected user.
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Practical DWG size guidance for CAD Viewer, why object count matters more than MB, and what to expect from small, medium, large, and x-large CAD files.
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Open the add-in in SharePoint admin and check the Version field.
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A short checklist for leaving a review when the Microsoft app review button is greyed out.
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Create a countdown timer video with Timer for Google Slides, save it to Drive, and insert it into your presentation.
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A short SharePoint admin guide to letting external guest users load SharePoint add-ins from document library toolbars.
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Install CAD Viewer in your tenant, open CAD files in SharePoint with right-click → View CAD, and add a CAD Viewer tab in Microsoft Teams.
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A short admin guide to installing 1990Quebec SharePoint add-ins from the SharePoint Store.
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A short admin guide to updating a SharePoint marketplace app in SharePoint admin center when a new version is released.
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Open CAD files with CAD Viewer for SharePoint and export the current view as a PDF to SharePoint or your computer.
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A simple guide to opening the Apps page in SharePoint admin center, deleting an existing app if needed, and uploading an .sppkg file.
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A short reference for the current 2D command line commands in CAD Viewer for SharePoint, including zoom, pan, and measurement tools.
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Build equations with a visual editor or LaTeX input, preview them, and insert them into Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
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Open DWG, DXF, STEP, STL, and other CAD files directly in SharePoint without desktop CAD software.
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Open DICOM files in SharePoint, adjust window and level, browse multiframe studies, and inspect metadata.
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Add 3D dice to a slide, reroll them live, use modifiers, and keep them interactive during a presentation.
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Shuffle a deck, keep important slides fixed, and undo the result when you want the original order back.
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Search millions of icons, customize colors and presets, and insert them directly into Excel, PowerPoint, Word, or OneNote.
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Set a countdown or stopwatch in PowerPoint, choose a theme, add timer sections, and present on time.
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Why Timer for PowerPoint can fail in slideshow mode and how to fix it by installing the add-in to your account.
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Compare five ways to zip and unzip files in SharePoint, from in-library archive creation and extraction to OneDrive sync and Power Automate.
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Supported archive formats, password notes, the macOS 7z caveat, and the most common fixes in one place.
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A step-by-step guide to upgrading your plan or canceling your 1990Quebec subscription.
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