Microsoft Office 95 includes six
applications:
Word (a
word processor),
Excel (a
spreadsheet editor),
PowerPoint (a
presentation program),
Access (a
database management system), Schedule+ (a
time management app) and
Binder (a program for binding the work of the mentioned apps together). The CD-ROM version includes
Microsoft Bookshelf. Previously, Microsoft had released Office 4.2 for Windows NT for several architectures, which included 32‑bit Word 6.0 for Windows NT and Excel 5.0 for Windows NT, but PowerPoint 4.0 and the Office Manager were 16‑bit. With Office 95, all components in the suite were
32-bit. All the Office 95 programs are
OLE 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. 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 of
Windows 98 and later, which would allow customizable gradient colors and extend the feature to include dialog boxes as well.
Microsoft Excel contains an
Easter egg, a hidden
Doom–like game called
Hall of Tortured Souls crediting the application's writers.
Contemporaneous components Additional programs have been marketed as "compatible with Microsoft Office 95": •
Microsoft Project (Version 4.1a) •
Microsoft Publisher (Version 3.0) •
Microsoft FrontPage 1.1 • Office Small Business Pack •
Small Business Financial Manager for Excel Other contemporaneous Microsoft products include: •
Microsoft Works 4.0 •
Microsoft Money 4.0 ==Editions==