Office assistant

It‘s included in Office 97 up to 2003.

Assistants

   Bosgrove (a butler) 
   Dot (a shape-shifting and color-shifting smiley-faced red ball)
   Earl (a blue, cartoon cat. A Microsoft spokesperson at a Microsoft Big Day reportedly stated he needed his dialog "cleaned up" before he was released, as he was used as an internal "debugging assistant".)
   Genie (a genie)
   Genius (a caricature of Albert Einstein)
   Hoverbot (a robot)
   Kairu the Dolphin (available for East Asian editions, downloadable for Office 97)[11]
   Max (a Macintosh Plus computer) (Macintosh)
   Merlin (a wizard)
   Mother Nature (a globe)
   Office Logo (a jigsaw puzzle)
   Peedy (a green parrot, whose name was ultimately reused in the first iteration of the notorious BonziBuddy software)
   Power Pup (a superhero dog)
   Robby (a robot)
   Scribble (an origami-esque cat)
   Will (a caricature of William Shakespeare)
   Clippy (a paperclip, the default)

The 1997 assistants can be downloaded from the Microsoft website.[12] <gallery> Oa97.png|Office assistant in Office 97 <gallery>