Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / October 2005

I recently installed service pack 2 to Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac,
and now Help doesn't work in any of the Office applications.  Search
works, but Home, Contents, Index, etc. all pop a dialog box: "Could not
display the help topic."

I am currently considering buying an iBook for school.  Since my school
runs on the PC platform I was wondering if I use Office 2004 on the
iBook if my instructors will be able to open the files on their PCs
using Office 2003 or older versions?  Is this something that would

Right now my small company has one copy of MO2004 and I'm the one using
it. We are upgrading the rest of the computers to OSX and there are
more people than me that use Word and Excell.
I've spent all morning on various websites trying to determine whether