No "Help Search" in Word or any other Office 2007 product

[rjunsinn]

When I click F1 for "Help" in any MS Office 2007 product (Word, Excel, etc),
I get the expected help pop-up window... But when I enter ANY word in the
search field and click "Search", nothing happens.

It does not matter what word I enter in the search field, nothing at all
happens when I click the "Search" button.

The bottom of the window says "Connected to Office Online". I tried
changing that to "Show content only from this computer", but that didn't
change anything... The search function in help just seems to be dead.

What is going on?

 

[DeanH]

The only time I noticed such behaviour was what turned out to be a clash with
Google Desktop Search.
Since removing Google Desktop Search and going to Copernic, all is well.
This was with Office 2003 on XP on a corporate system, so not sure if this
is related to 2007, but you never know <shrug>
Come back if you find what caused your problem for future reference.
Best of luck
DeanH