Locked Text Layer?

When attempting to change missing fonts I am getting a pop up error that says "Some text was on a locked layer and the font could not be replaced."
I then went to Windows>Layers and none of my layers are locked. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Ah-ha! I just found an image that was off of the artboard. That's what was causing the issue.

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