Missing Font Helvetica-Narrow

I keep getting an error when opening Pages documents telling me that I'm missing the font Helvetica-Narrow. I don't remember ever intentionally using that font, but it really doesn't matter to me what font this document is in. It's just annoying to keep getting this error (I have a lot of similar documents with the same problem).
I just tried using Pacifist to reinstall fonts from my Snow Leopard disk, but that didn't help. I couldn't find that font on my disk, so I just reinstalled all the fonts I could find, including regular Helvetica. I thought that Helvetica-Narrow might be included with the regular Helvetica, but I guess it wasn't. Where can I find this elusive Helvetica-Narrow font?

The documents are not translated from Word. I created them in Pages. I'm a teacher and the documents are my lesson plans. There's one for each week in table form. Each week as I write new lesson plans, I copy stuff from last year's plans. This problem started last school year. It's frustrating because I keep copying the problem to my new documents. I've tried changing the fonts and I still get the errors.
Is there a way to change the fonts on an entire folder full of documents all at the same time? I've never really used Automator. Is this a good time to learn?
Thanks.

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