The Michelangelo of Microsoft Excel

- [Narrator] These paintings, they aren't done with acrylic, oil, or watercolor. - [Narrator] Microsoft Excel, the computer program. This is a story about Tatsuo, the Microsoft Excel Artist. (bouncy electronic music) - [Narrator] When Tatsuo retired, he decided he wanted to paint, but there was one problem: he was cheap. - [Narrator] He didn't even want to pay for an art program, so he used what was already on his computer. - [Narrator] So, how do you paint in Excel? The line tool, it's usually used for spreadsheet graphs, that you can make trees with, and the bucket tool, it helps with subtle shading on, for example, the crest of a volcano. (bell dinging)

Channel: Great Big Story

Views: 8,837,833

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Id: OrwBc6PwAcY

Length: 2min 28sec (148 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 01 2017