Missing Font Warning in Pages

I transferred a Word file from a PC and when I open it in Pages I get a Missing Font Warning. How can I find where the words or characters that use that missing font are, so I can change the font.
Is there a way I can search for or highlight any words or characters that use a particular font?
Or is there a way I can highlight all of the other known good fonts I am using so that I can isolate the words or characters with the missing font?
Also, can I find out what font has been substituted for the missing font?
I want to be able to replace the "missing font" with one of the two good fonts I am using in the rest of the document.

If I remember well, the warning tell us the name of the replaced fonts.
So we may use the script which is available on my iDisk since 6 juin 2008 to replace the missing fonts by the ones we want to use. It was written to respond to a clone of your question.
<http://idisk.mac.com/koenigyvan-Public?view=web>
Download:
For_iWork:changeFont.zip
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 6 juillet 2008 14:56:46)

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But the pedant in me is not satisfied. :\
I understand that the simple answer is to reload the fonts, but this is a new iMac that I have Pages installed on, and Office has never touched it ... so the issue about whether or not I correctly deinstalled them previously is a non issue. Additonally Spotlight can't locate the fonts, so I know they are not on my system.
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