Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is Microsoft’s presentation app for creating, editing, and viewing slide decks on your Mac.
What is Microsoft PowerPoint?
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation application included with Microsoft 365 and available as a standalone Microsoft Office app. People use it to build slide presentations, speaker notes, handouts, charts, animations, and collaborative documents for school, work, and meetings. On a Mac, you may encounter it as a regular application, along with related settings, saved state, autosave, and Microsoft Office support files.
Safety overview
Status: Safe
This is a legitimate Microsoft application. Removing the app or its related data can affect access to presentations, local preferences, recent file lists, autosave information, and Office sign-in or collaboration features.
Recommendation: Keep if you use Microsoft Office or open PowerPoint files. If you no longer use it, removal is usually optional, but review related Microsoft Office data first if you want to preserve settings, local documents, or sign-in state.
Common paths
/Applications/Microsoft PowerPoint.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.Powerpoint
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office~/Library/Application Support/com.microsoft.Powerpoint
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Powerpoint.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Powerpoint
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