Cannot close "Help" in Office for Mac

I have Office for Mac 2004 and I have this problem whenever I try to use "Help". Once help is open, I can continue to navigate and edit the document and can find all the help topics easily enough. I cannot, however, seem to find a way to quit help when I am finished without closing the application altogether. The help window is anchored to the menu bar without any links or buttons to allow me to close the window. I've tried Command + Q, but that just asks if I want to quit the entire application. Any ideas on what is wrong and what I can do to fix it?

I do wish someone would answer this because it's been bugging me since I got my computer and installed Office 2004. Oddly, my wife and daughter, on their respective computers, running Office 2004, don't have the same problem; their help window behaves like any other window, with the command bar at the top with the little red dot to close the window etc.

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