This is the result of opening an Office 2003 program and a office XP or 2000
on the same computer. Article KB837825 refers to this and I belive that
there is no fix or workaround for it yet. You should still be able to use
Help even without the assistant.

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HTH

Sandy

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"Griz" wrote in message
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While working in Excel, I attempted to access the office assistant and the
following message displayed:


"There is no office assistant character file present on this system.
Please
run setup in maintenance mode and install at least one character." Please
help!