The Office Assistant is a discontinued intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character which interfaced with the Office help content. It was included in Microsoft Office, in Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft FrontPage. It had a wide selection of characters to choose from, with the most well known being a paperclip called Clippit[1][2] (also known as Clippy). The Office Assistant and particularly Clippit have been the subject of numerous criticisms and parodies.
Clippit, the default Office Assistant