Office 97

Microsoft Office 97 is a version of Microsoft Office. This version introduced Microsoft Outlook (not to be confused with Outlook Express) into the suite and massively expanded upon the feature set of applications, adding support for the new Internet world. It also included animated Office Assistant characters based on the guides from Microsoft Bob. Office 97 was the last to be offered on floppy disks.

For Mac, Office 98 was released, adding features from 97 and more Mac-specific features. It was praised as an improvement over the 4.2 release on that platform, which was considered a sloppy Windows port and poorly received.

System requirements
The computer needs to have either Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 SP5 or later installed. However, some features require at least Windows NT 4.0, making usage on NT 3.51 a little bit limited.

Service Releases
Microsoft released two Service Releases for Office 97, one in 1997 and the other in 1998. Service Releases are similar to Service Packs for Windows and were used until Office 2000, as Office XP switched to Service Packs.