Editing Microsoft PowerPoint (section)

===Artistic medium===
Musician [[David Byrne]] has been using PowerPoint as a medium for art for years, producing a book and DVD and showing at galleries his PowerPoint-based artwork.<ref name="Vienne"/> Byrne has written: "I have been working with PowerPoint, the ubiquitous presentation software, as an art medium for a number of years. It started off as a joke (this software is a symbol of corporate salesmanship, or lack thereof) but then the work took on a life of its own as I realized I could create pieces that were moving, despite the limitations of the 'medium.{{Single double}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://216.92.211.74/art/eeei/ |title=Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information |last=Byrne |first=David |author-link=David Byrne |date=2003 |website=David Byrne Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916033800/http://216.92.211.74/art/eeei/ |url-status=live |archive-date=September 16, 2017 |access-date=September 16, 2017}}</ref>

In 2005 Byrne toured with a theater piece styled as a PowerPoint presentation. When he presented it in Berkeley, on March 8, 2005, the University of California news service reported: "Byrne also defended [PowerPoint's] appeal as more than just a business tool—as a medium for art and theater. His talk was titled 'I ♥ PowerPoint'. Berkeley alumnus [[Bob Gaskins]] and [[Dennis Austin]] were in the audience. Eventually, Byrne said, PowerPoint could be the foundation for 'presentational theater,' with roots in Brechtian drama and Asian puppet theater."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Powell |first=Bonnie Azab |date=March 8, 2005 |title=David Byrne really does ♥ PowerPoint, Berkeley presentation shows |url=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/08_byrne.shtml |website=UC Berkeley News Center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050311025730/http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/08_byrne.shtml |url-status=live |archive-date=March 11, 2005 |access-date=September 15, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> After that performance, Byrne described it in his own online journal: "Did the PowerPoint talk in Berkeley for an audience of IT legends and academics. I was terrified. The guys that originally turned PowerPoint into a program were there, what were THEY gonna think? ... [Gaskins] did tell me afterwards that he liked the PowerPoint as theater idea, which was a relief."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://davidbyrne.typepad.com/db/page/49/ |title=Journal: 3.8.05: San Francisco |last=Byrne |first=David |author-link=David Byrne |date=2005 |website=David Byrne Journal |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170916033610/http://davidbyrne.typepad.com/db/page/49/ |url-status=live |archive-date=September 16, 2017 |access-date=September 16, 2017}}</ref>

The expressions "PowerPoint Art" or "[[pptArt]]" are used to define a contemporary Italian artistic movement which believes that the corporate world can be a unique and exceptional source of inspiration for the artist.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nastro |first=Santa |title=Arte e aziende. Nasce il Manifesto della Corporate Art: lo firmano Ugo Nespolo, Alexander Ponomarev e Fernando De Filippi |url=http://www.artribune.com/tribnews/2016/11/arte-aziende-nasce-manifesto-corporate-art-lo-firmano-ugo-nespolo-alexander-ponomarev-fernando-de-filippi/ |newspaper=Artribune |location=Rome |issn=2280-8817 |date=November 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916172548/http://www.artribune.com/tribnews/2016/11/arte-aziende-nasce-manifesto-corporate-art-lo-firmano-ugo-nespolo-alexander-ponomarev-fernando-de-filippi/ |url-status=live |archive-date=September 16, 2017 |access-date=September 16, 2017 |quote=[''Trans.''] The corporate world can be an art object. }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pptart.net/manifesto |title=pptArt Manifesto |last=pptArt |author-link=pptArt |date=2014 |website=pptArt.net |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6YkPnogNv?url=https://filetea.me/t1siHirAq8GRca1nkAALDtJ0A |url-status=live |archive-date=May 23, 2015 |access-date=September 15, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> They say: "The pptArt name refers to PowerPoint, the symbolic and abstract language developed by the corporate world which has become a universal and highly symbolic communication system beyond cultures and borders."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pptart.net/corporate |title=Our Services for Corporate Clients |last=pptArt |author-link=pptArt |date=2014 |website=pptArt.net |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6YkPuCnUs?url=https://filetea.me/t1s0zwT0tUpSD2uctnVellocg |url-status=live |archive-date=May 23, 2015 |access-date=September 15, 2017 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

The wide use of PowerPoint had, by 2010, given rise to " ... a subculture of PowerPoint enthusiasts [that] is teaching the old application new tricks, and may even be turning a dry presentation format into a full-fledged artistic medium,"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greenberg |first=Andy |author-link=Andy Greenberg |date=May 11, 2010 |title=The Underground Art Of PowerPoint |url=https://www.forbes.com/2010/05/10/microsoft-software-iphone-technology-powerpoint.html |newspaper=Forbes |issn=0015-6914 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630132845/https://www.forbes.com/2010/05/10/microsoft-software-iphone-technology-powerpoint.html |url-status=live |archive-date=June 30, 2017 |access-date=September 15, 2017}}</ref> by using [[PowerPoint animation]] to create "games, artworks, anime, and movies."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pptheaven.mvps.org/ |title=PowerPoint Heaven: The Power to Animate |last=Toh |first=Shawn |date=2014 |website=PowerPoint Heaven |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170606041637/http://pptheaven.mvps.org/index.html |url-status=live |archive-date=June 6, 2017 |access-date=September 15, 2017 |quote= Our goal is to show users that PowerPoint is not simply a presentation tool, but is also capable on leveraging into other areas such as creating games, artworks and animations.}}</ref>