| Microsoft Office 95 | |
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 Microsoft Office 95 applications from top-left: Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint with the Office Shortcut Bar | |
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Initial release | August 24, 1995; 30 years ago (1995-08-24)[1] |
| Final release | |
| Operating system | Windows NT 3.51 or later[3] |
| Platform | IA-32 |
| Predecessor | Microsoft Office 4.3 (1994) |
| Successor | Microsoft Office 97 (1996) |
| Standard | OLE 2.0[4] |
| Type | Office suite |
| License | Proprietarycommercial software |
| Website | technet |
Microsoft Office 95 (version 7.0)[a] is the fourth major release of theMicrosoft Office office suite forWindows systems, released byMicrosoft on August 24, 1995.[5] It is the successor to bothOffice 4.2 and 4.3 and it bumps up the version number of both the suite itself and all its components to 7.0, so that each Office program's number matches the rest. The suite is officially compatible with Windows NT 3.51 throughWindows 2000.[3] It was superseded byMicrosoft Office 97 and support ended on December 31, 2001.[6] It is the last version of Microsoft Office to supportWindows NT 3.51 RTM–SP4.
Microsoft Office 95 includes sixapplications:Word (aword processor),Excel (aspreadsheet editor),PowerPoint (apresentation program),Access (adatabase management system), Schedule+ (atime management app) andBinder (a program for binding the work of the mentioned apps together). The CD-ROM version includesMicrosoft Bookshelf.
Previously, Microsoft had released Office 4.2 for Windows NT for several architectures,[7] which included 32‑bit Word 6.0 for Windows NT and Excel 5.0 for Windows NT,[8] but PowerPoint 4.0 and the Office Manager were 16‑bit. With Office 95, all components in the suite were32-bit. All the Office 95 programs areOLE 2-enabled, meaning that they allow interoperability between themselves and other applications that support the protocol. Binder uses this protocol to bind OLE objects together.[4]
Office 95 moves the version number of its applications to 7.0 to match Word's version number. Other components bear the same version numbers to show that they are contemporaries, although their predecessors are not version 6.0. The previous versions of components are Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, Schedule+ 1.0 and Access 2.0. Binder had no predecessor at the time.
The Office 95 programs utilize a two-tone gradient in the title bar at the top of the window, gradually turning from black at the left side to dark blue at the right. At the time, this was unique to Office 95; no other program running under Windows 95 or Windows NT utilized gradient title bars. This feature was eventually incorporated into the shell ofWindows 98 and later, which would allow customizable gradient colors and extend the feature to include dialog boxes as well.
Microsoft Excel contains anEaster egg, a hiddenDoom–like game calledHall of Tortured Souls crediting the application's writers.[9]
Additional programs have been marketed as "compatible with Microsoft Office 95":
Other contemporaneous Microsoft products include:
Office 95 is available in two versions. They contain the following applications:[11]
| Application | Standard Edition | Professional Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Word[12] | Yes | Yes |
| Excel[13] | Yes | Yes |
| PowerPoint[14] | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule+[15] | Yes | Yes |
| Binder[16] | Yes | Yes |
| Access[17] | No | Yes |
| Bookshelf[18] | No | On CD-ROM version only |
Two updated versions, 7.0a[19] and 7.0b[2] were released to fixbugs in the applications, including a fix for a screen redraw problem in PowerPoint. The updates could be ordered from Microsoft Support. A downloadable update addresses issues related to theYear 2000 problem.[20]
Versions 3.0 and 3.5 of theJet Database Engine, used byAccess 7.0 and the later released Access 97 respectively, have a critical issue which makes these versions of Access unusable on a computer with more than 1GB of memory.[21] While this problem has been fixed for Jet 3.5/Access 97, it has never been fixed for Jet 3.0 or Access 95.
Microsoft Office 95 requires a386DX or higherCPU, 8MB ofRAM, andWindows NT 3.51 for typical use. Regardinghard disk space, compact installations require 28 MB, "typical" installations require 55 MB, and full installations require 88 MB.[3]
