"Any" fonts that work on a PC will work on a Mac, and mostly vice-versa.
The only dangerous ones are PostScript fonts: some rare (and quite old...)
fonts were coded with platform-specific macros in them.
However, what do you mean by "work"? If you mean "render with pixel-perfect
matching accuracy on both platforms" the answer is "None of them".
However, the differences are normally slight (and the newer the font, the
less the difference).
The fonts Microsoft supplies with Microsoft Office 2004 (and that's the only
place to get them: on the Office 2004 disc...) have been specially coded to
produce results on the Mac as close as possible to the results that will be
produced using the same-named fonts on the PC. So if you can do the job
with those, use them.
Note that "perfection" is not really practicable. Being a professional
designer, I am sure you would not design your document so that it depends on
lines wrapping at exactly the same point when displayed on a different
platform and flowed for a different printer. The Microsoft fonts will get
you "almost" close enough to do that (provided you connect both the PC and
the Mac to the same physical printer model). And so far, that's as good as
it gets.
Cheers
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